A Hyundai built EMD brings an express train into Dhaka along the dual gauge track whilst life carries on around it.
A photo which really shows the atmosphere around these festival trains in Bangladesh. Metre gauge 2712 heads a train of Pilgrims returning from the Biswa Ijtema festival at Tongi. Seen at Mohakali... (more)
Just after sunrise an Intercity train heads out of Dhaka as people walk to work.
A relatively lightly loaded express approaches Dhaka with only a smattering of roof riders...
A slightly different angle from above at Karwan Bazaar.
Life carries on as normal, whilst the Turag Commuter train approaches Dhaka with a train full of workers behind one of the strangest looking ALCO descendants, a YDM4B.
Not the first photo on railpictures.net from this viewpoint and on seeing a foreigner with a camera approaching, the security of the building pointed me up to the roof with no questions asked! ... (more)
What`s it like inside the carriage? A well loaded train of devotees, en route to the Biswa Ijtema festival at Tongi, passes Karwan Bazar, in Dhaka.
Metre gauge DLW No 2801 crosses the Pantha Path Road in Dhaka with a train of pilgrims heading to the Biswa Ijtema festival at Tongi.
This was taken just a few seconds after RP photo 312919 and it`s good to see that all on board are still present. I would guess that the train was travelling at around 30mph. 2712 heads a train of... (more)
Metre gauge Henschel No 2714 heads a well loaded train towards Dhaka Kamalapur at Karwan Bazar in 2010.
Roof riders! Metre gauge 2917 nears journey`s end at Dhaka Kamlapur with the 0730 from Sylhet.
Fellow railpics contributor Phil Cotterill photographs a train of pilgrims returning from the Biswa Ijtema festival at Tongi. Seen in the Tejgaon area of Dhaka. I`ve no idea of the loco class.
2704 negotiates the complex, dual gauge trackwork as it arrives at Dhaka Kamlapur with the Joyantika Express, the 0730 from Sylhet.
