2514 is stopped at a signal at Karwan Bazar with a train of devotees on their way to the Biswa Ijtema festival at Tongi. There is a fantastic,carnival-like atmosphere about these trains, with much... (more)

Only 2 broad gauge trains currently reach Kamlapur, the main station in Dhaka. Here ALCO clone 6412 nears Kamlapur with the Silk City Express, 0730 from Rajshahi.

1954 built, metre gauge GM 2020 stands at Chittagong, Pahartali shed. Now 56 years old and still in main line service! Also popular with crews and maintenance staff.

The most crowded train in the world? Every January the Biswa Ijtema event takes place in Tongi, north of Dhaka, attracting around 3 million people! On it`s third and final day the trains taking de... (more)

Metre gauge 2917 approaches Dhaka Kamlapur with the 0730 from Sylhet. sister loco 2915, in pink livery, waits to drop down to the station.

I think the cow has the wrong idea about stock yards!

Metre gauge 1978 built MLW No 2407 has arrived at Bogra on train 19, The Bogra Express, 1400 Santahar to Gaibandha.

Metre gauge 2718 leaves Mymensingh with the Balaka Express, the 1500 to Dhaka. The train is well loaded with plenty of people on the roof.

metre gauge 2806, a 1995 build from DLW Varanasi,India and 2224 a 1963 EMD, stand at Dhaka Kamlapur loco shed. Women do their share of heavy work here.

A line of redundant HHD class shunt engines, built by Ganz of Hungary in 1980, stand at Khulna shed. The nearest loco is actually number 7004, the loco carrying it`s number in Bangla script.

ALCO clone 6411, built as recently as 2004 by DLW in Varanasi, India. The loco is 5 feet 6 inch gauge. Khulna shed staff pose on the loco watched by a future employee.

An inspection trolley is reflected in a pond as it crosses a bridge over the Dhaka line nearing Mymensingh from Gouripur.

metre gauge 2907, built in 2000 by Hyundai Rotem in South Korea, leaves Mymensingh with train 48, the "Dewanganj Express", 1225 Dewanganj Bazar to Dhaka.

metre gauge HHD class, No 3320,built by Ganz in Hungary 1983,passes through a textile market as it arrives at Bogra on train 20,the "Bogra Express", 1345 Gaibandha to Santahar. Stall holders need ... (more)

metre gauge 2912, built in 2000 by Hyundai Rotem in South Korea, nears Dhaka on 0715 from Chittagong,The "Mahangar Probhati". Slums line the trackside here. Many of the residents scrape a living b... (more)