BR to sell Eid tickets from Sep 7
Thursday, 3 September 2009
Bangladesh Railway (BR) will start selling advance tickets for the forthcoming Eid-ul-Fitr festival from September 7. BR sources said tickets of all classes of inter-city trains would be sold in advance at Kamalapur, Dhaka Airport, Joydevpur, Sylhet and Chittagong railway stations from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm everyday. The advance tickets for September 14 will be sold on September 7, while the September 15 tickets on September 8, September 16 tickets on September 9 and so on. BR Additional Director General (operation) Kazi Asadullah said the seven-day advance ticket selling programme has been taken so that the passengers can easily collect tickets of inter-city trains before the Eid. - BSS