Mogalhat railway station
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Mogalhat
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| Bangladesh Railway Station | |
| Location |
Lalmonirhat, Rangpur Bangladesh
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| Other information | |
| Status | Line out of service |
| History | |
| Opened | 1900? |
| Closed | 1955-1960? |
| Previous names | Northern Bengal State Railway |
| Track gauge | Meter gauge 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) |
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Mogalhat (Bengali: মোগলহাট) is a border railway station in Bangladesh, situated in Lalmonirhat District, in Rangpur Division. It is a defunct railway transit point on the Bangladesh-India border.
By the turn of the nineteenth century Lalmonirhat railway station had emerged as an important railway centre. Bengal Dooars Railway constructed a line to Malbazar. Cooch Behar State Railway constructed the Geetaldaha-Jayanti narrow gauge line. Links were established with Assam, with the Golokganj-Amingaon line coming up. In pre-independence days, a metre gauge line running via Radhikapur, Biral, Parbatipur, Tista, Gitaldaha and Golokganj connected Fakiragaram in Assam with Katihar in Bihar.
The Mogalhat-Geetaldaha link was there in 1955, when Pakistan and India signed an agreement regarding resumption of rail traffic. Subsequently, a part of the bridge across the Dharla River 26°00′11″N 89°28′10″E / 26.00304°N 89.46934°E was washed away transforming Mogalhat-Geetaldaha, a defunct railway transit point.
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