Branch Lines
Not only was the mainline an important one but a cursory glance at the route map shows important links. The Maitree Express uses a part of the route from Iswardi.
Abdulpur is an important junction with links to Rajshahi and the India-Bangladesh border at Rahanpur-Singhabad. In olden days, it was the route for travel between Malda and Kolkata.
Santahar is another important junction, with a metre gauge connection to many places in the northern part of Bangladesh.
In pre-independence days, there was a metre gauge line: Katihar - Radhikapur - Biral - Parbatipur - Tista - Geetaldaha - Golakganj – Fakiragram.
Read more about this topic: East Bengal Mail
Famous quotes containing the words branch and/or lines:
“She saw a dust bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister calxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage!”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up tradition, and expecting, beside fair weather and abundant harvests, we did not learn what. They were contented to live, since it was so contrived for them, and where their lines had fallen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)