Status Line out of service Closed 1955-1960? | Opened 1900? | |
Previous names Northern Bengal State Railway Similar Gitaldaha railway station, Biral railway station, Mahisasan railway station, Chilahati railway station, Singhabad railway station | ||
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.
History
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 was washed away transforming Mogalhat-Geetaldaha, a defunct railway transit point.