| Mymensingh Junction Railway Station | |||||||||||
| Native Name: | ময়মনসিংহ জংশন রেলওয়ে স্টেশন | ||||||||||
| Native Name Lang: | bn | ||||||||||
| Style: | Bangladesh Railways | ||||||||||
| Address: | Mymensingh | ||||||||||
| Country: | Bangladesh | ||||||||||
| Type: | Passenger train station | ||||||||||
| Structure: | Standard (on ground station) | ||||||||||
| Status: | Functioning | ||||||||||
| Line: | Narayanganj–Bahadurabad Ghat line Mymensingh–Gouripur–Bhairab line | ||||||||||
| Platform: | 3 | ||||||||||
| Tracks: | Meter Gauge | ||||||||||
| Owned: | Bangladesh Railway | ||||||||||
| Former: | Assam Bengal Railway (1886–1947) Pakistan Eastern Railway (1947–1971) | ||||||||||
| Mapframe: | yes | ||||||||||
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Mymensingh Junction Railway Station is a railway junction located in Mymensingh, Bangladesh.[1] [2] [3]
The demand for jute was increasing all over the world. For the purpose of meeting that growing demand, there was a need for better communication system than the existing communication system to supply jute from Eastern Bengal to Port of Kolkata. Therefore in 1885 a 144 km wide meter gauge railway line named Dhaka State Railway was constructed to bring raw jute to Kolkata mainly by river which connects Mymensingh with Narayanganj.[4] The railway junction in Mymensingh opened on 15 February 1886.[5] In 2021, the Minister of Railways announced the modernization of the railway junction at a cost of .[6]
Mymensingh Junction railway station is known to be unsanitary and a hotbed of pickpockets.[7] The station is also allegedly occupied by ticket black marketers.[8]