East Bengal Mail

East Bengal Mail


[ ] Sealdah-Parbatipur Line
Track gauge: Broad gauge 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in)
Legend
Sealdah
Ranaghat
to Lalgola
Gede
India-Bangladesh border
Darshana
to Jessore
Poradah
to Goalundo Ghat
Hardinge Bridge across Padma
Iswardi
to Dhaka
to Rahanpur-Singhabad border
Abdulpur
Santahar
to Lalmonirhat Junction MG
Hili
to Biral-Radhikapur border MG
Parbatipur Junction
to Lalmonirhat Junction MG
to Chilahati-Haldibari border


The East Bengal Mail was a railway train that was one of three train services running between India and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) . The railway link was suspended at the outbreak of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.

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