Advance railway ticket for Eid from July 9
BSS
Bangladesh Railway (BR) will begin advance ticket selling from Thursday (July 9) to ease travelling of the homebound passengers ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr, reports BSS.
Railway department sources said the ticket for July 13 to be sold on July 9, for July 14 to be sold on July 10, for July 15 on July 11, for July 16 on July 12 and for July 17 on July 13.
A passenger would be able to buy maximum four tickets and tickets once sold would not be refundable. BR will operate 14 special train services including four special train services by the name Solakia special on Eid day.
Other special services will be operated for three days before Eid, from July 15 to July 17, and for seven days after Eid, from July 20 to July 26.
The special train services will be operated on Dhaka-Dewanganj-Dhaka route as Dewanganj special, Chittagong-Chandpur-Chittagong route as Chandpur special, Parbatipur-Dhaka-Parbatipur route as Parbatipur special and Khulna-Dhaka-Khulna route as Khulna special.
Special train service like Solakia Express also will be operated on Bhairab-Kishorganj-Bhairab route and Mymensingh-Kishorganj-Mymensingh route on Eid day.
Meanwhile, there will be no day-off for the inter-city train services from July 13 to the day before Eid. Bangladesh Railway will connect 169 additional passenger coaches with the existing number of coaches running for facilitating the homebound passengers. Currently BR transports about 1,80,000 passengers a day. But on the occasion of Eid, initiative has been taken to transport nearly 2,50,000 passengers a day.
The BR has taken adequate measures to prevent black-marketing of ticket.
