Narayanganj railway station
Narayanganj Railway Station is located in Narayanganj District, Bangladesh. The station is the main and populated station of Narayanganj city.
Narayanganj Railway Junction was the famous railway station in the British and Pakistan period also still now. This is the oldest railway station in the region. The station was most important terminal specially jute trading meant Adamjee Jute Mills and other communication routes abreast ferry terminal along with bus terminal. Now everyday around more than thirty thousand passengers travel to the capital from Narayanganj by train.
History
Narayanganj Railway Junction is situated on the western bank of Shitalakshya River at the point where the Brahmaputra and Buriganga discharge into the Shitalakshya.In December 1882, the Government of Bengal began work on the Dacca State Railway, connecting Dacca with Narayanganj, its satellite river port to the south, and with Mymensingh to the north. Revenue service on the Dacca-Narayanganj segment began on 4 January 1885. The Mymensingh-Dhaka segment opened for cargo on 1 August 1885, and thereafter opened for passengers gradually in sections through 18 February 1886. At completion, rolling stock consisted of 12 engines, 60 passenger coaches, and 345 freight wagons. The line was used mainly to transport jute to the port of Narayanganj, from which it was shipped by river to Calcutta.