Mogalhat railway station
Railway station in Bangladesh
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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.
Bangladesh
Mogalhat | |||||
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Remains of Old Railway Bridge | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Lalmonirhat, Rangpur Bangladesh | ||||
| Coordinates | 25.99224°N 89.45184°E | ||||
| System | Bangladesh Railway Station | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Status | Line out of service | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1896 | ||||
| Closed | 1965 | ||||
| Previous names | Northern Bengal State Railway | ||||
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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]
Defunct Lalmonirhat–Geetaldaha line | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Mogalhat-Geetaldaha link was there in 1955, when Pakistan and India signed an agreement regarding resumption of rail traffic.[5] On 1965 a part of the bridge across the Dharla River at 26.00304°N 89.46934°E was washed away & then the 1965 Indo-Pak War stopped rail services between India & East Pakistan which transformed Mogalhat-Gitaldaha section, a defunct railway transit point.
Note: The map below presents the position as it stands today (2020). The international border was not there when the railways were first laid in the area in the 19th-20th century. It came up in 1947. Since then, it has been an effort to live up to the new realities. The map is 'Interactive' (the larger version) - it means that all the places shown in the map are linked in the full screen map.
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River
Land Port
CT: census town, R: rural/ urban centre, RS: railway station
Owing to space constraints in the small map, the actual locations in a larger map may vary slightly
