Tongi–Bhairab–Akhaura line

A 150-kilometre long (93 mi) track between Chittagong and Comilla was opened to traffic in 1895.

[1][4] In November 2011, the Bangladesh Railway signed an agreement with two Indian private companies for the feasibility study, detail design and preparation of tender documents for the construction of the second Bhairab rail bridge across the Meghna and second rail bridge across the Titas River.

[5] The 1.2-kilometre long (0.75 mi) Bangladesh–UK Friendship Bridge, completed in 2002, carries the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway across the Meghna between Bhairab Bazar and Ashuganj.

[6] Bangladesh Railway signed a deal with a Chinese firm in July 2011 for doubling the 64-kilometre (40 mi) single-line Tongi–Bhairab Bazar track.

It was acquired by the government in 1948–49 and the Assam Bengal Railway Company was in charge of the management of the line.