After the partition of India in 1947, Dhaka became the main city and capital of East Bengal.

Then the area of Fulbaria became densely populated which became a major obstacle for train movement.

Later, in the late 1950s, the construction of the new central railway station for the province and a new railway line was started on a large scale in the Kamalapur, Shahjahanpur area of Dhaka and it was completed in 1968.

Due to the opening of Kamalapur station, the railway line was shifted from Tejgaon.

In 2019, train tickets were sold from this station building on the occasion of Eid.