Exhausted, a woman drinks water to beat the heat as she waits in a long queue at Kamalapur Railway Station in the city on Friday to collect advance train tickets for travel during Eid-ul-Azha holiday — FE photo by Shafiqul Alam The Bangladesh Railway (BR) authority started selling advance tickets on Friday ahead of the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha, to be observed on July 10.
Tickets for journey on July 5 were sold on the first day (Friday) of selling advance tickets.
BR sources said advance tickets for the Eid-ul-Azha are now being sold from six stations in Dhaka and Joydebpur railway junction in Gazipur.
Tickets of the intercity trains for northern districts (Dinajpur, Rangpur and others) as well as for Rajshahi and Khulna can be bought from Kamalapur Railway Station.
On the other hand, tickets of the Chattogram and Noakhali-bound intercity trains are being sold at Dhaka Airport Railway Station.
Tickets of the Mymensingh, Jamalpur and Dewanganj-bound intercity trains can be managed from Tejgaon Railway Station.
Tickets for Mohonganj and Haor Express are being sold at Dhaka Cantonment Railway Station.
Tickets of the Sylhet and Kishoreganj-bound intercity trains are being sold at Fulbaria old railway station.
Ticket sale at the railway stations begins at 8:00 am and continues until 4:00 pm. Each passenger can buy maximum four tickets.
The BR authority is selling advance tickets through Rail Sheba mobile app and e-ticketing on the internet.
Tickets for journey on July 6 can be bought today (Saturday), and for journey on July 7 on Sunday (July 3).
Tickets for journey on July 8 will be available on July 4, and tickets for July 9 will be possible to get on July 5.
Sale of return tickets will continue from July 7 to July 11.
Meanwhile, many passengers, who went to Kamalapur Railway Station in the capital on the day, could not manage tickets, as the tickets for July 5 were sold out within three hours of starting the sale at 8:00 am.
Visiting the station on Friday morning, the FE correspondent found a number of people standing in long queues for purchasing tickets.
Many of them said they had spent overnight in front of the counters for tickets. Despite waiting for long hours or even the whole night at the station many returned empty handed.
"I came to the station on Thursday evening and waited until the opening of ticket sale on Friday morning. Unfortunately, I could not purchase ticket, as some 200 people were standing before me," said Md Riyad, who came from Gendaria area for purchasing tickets of a Rangpur-bound train.
"When I reached near the ticket counter, the booking clerk told me that the tickets were sold out," he added.
"I managed a ticket after waiting for many hours," Md Abu Bakar Siddique, a private sector service holder, told the FE.
He said he would go to Dinajpur on the occasion of the Eid festival, and managed ticket after staying overnight at Kamalapur Railway Station.
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