Mogalhat Railway Station

Mogalhat (Bengali: মোগলহাট) is a border railway station in Bangladesh, situated in Lalmonirhat District, in Rangpur Division. It is a defunct railway transit point on the Bangladesh-India border.

Mogalhat
Bangladesh Railway Station
LocationLalmonirhat, Rangpur
 Bangladesh
Other information
StatusLine out of service
History
Opened1900?
Closed1955-1960?
Previous namesNorthern Bengal State Railway
Defunct Lalmonirhat–Geetaldaha Line
Track gaugeMetre gauge 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in)
from Burimari–Lalmonirhat–Parbatipur line
Lalmonirhat
Mogalhat
India–Bangladesh border
Dharla River with broken bridge
Gitaldaha
to Golokganj

History

By the turn of the nineteenth century Lalmonirhat railway station had emerged as an important railway centre. Bengal Dooars Railway constructed a line to Malbazar. Cooch Behar State Railway constructed the Geetaldaha-Jayanti narrow gauge line. Links were established with Assam, with the Golokganj-Amingaon line coming up. In pre-independence days, a metre gauge line running via Radhikapur, Biral, Parbatipur, Tista, Gitaldaha and Golokganj connected Fakiragram in Assam with Katihar in Bihar.[1][2][3][4]

The Mogalhat-Geetaldaha link was there in 1955, when Pakistan and India signed an agreement regarding resumption of rail traffic.[5] Subsequently, a part of the bridge across the Dharla River 26°00′11″N 89°28′10″E was washed away transforming Mogalhat-Geetaldaha, a defunct railway transit point.

References
  1. R.P. Saxena. "Indian Railway History timeline". Archived from the original on 2012-07-14. Retrieved 2012-02-01.
  2. "Bengal Dooars Railway". Fibis. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
  3. "Geography - International". IRFCA. Retrieved 2011-12-10.
  4. "Prospect to establish Quadrilateral business link". Bangla 2000, 10 October 2000. Retrieved 2012-02-01.
  5. "No. 3458, Pakistan and india, Agreement regarding resumption of rail traffic. Signed at Karachi on 15 April 1955" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-01-28.


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