Hili railway station

Hili (Bengali: হিলি) is a railway station in Hakimpur Upazila in Dinajpur District of Rangpur Division in Bangladesh.

From 1878, the railway route from Kolkata, then called Calcutta, to Siliguri was in two laps.

The first lap was a 185 km (115 mi) journey along the Eastern Bengal State Railway from Calcutta Station (later renamed Sealdah) to Damookdeah Ghat on the southern bank of the Padma River, then across the river in a ferry and the second lap of the journey.

A 336 km (209 mi) metre gauge line of the North Bengal Railway linked Saraghat on the northern bank of the Padma to Siliguri.

Smuggled goods comprise sugar, onion, saris, medicines and even contraband drugs.