2514 is stopped at a signal at Karwan Bazar with a train of devotees on their way to the Biswa Ijtema festival at Tongi. There is a fantastic,carnival-like atmosphere about these trains, with much... (more)
Only 2 broad gauge trains currently reach Kamlapur, the main station in Dhaka. Here ALCO clone 6412 nears Kamlapur with the Silk City Express, 0730 from Rajshahi.
The most crowded train in the world? Every January the Biswa Ijtema event takes place in Tongi, north of Dhaka, attracting around 3 million people! On it`s third and final day the trains taking de... (more)
metre gauge 2806, a 1995 build from DLW Varanasi,India and 2224 a 1963 EMD, stand at Dhaka Kamlapur loco shed. Women do their share of heavy work here.