Bangladesh Railway
Native name | বাংলাদেশ রেলওয়ে |
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| Company type | State-owned |
| Industry | Railways and locomotives |
| Predecessor | Pakistan Eastern Railway |
| Founded | 15 November 1862 |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Bangladesh |
Key people | Md Afzal Hossain (Director General of Bangladesh Railway) |
| Revenue | ৳6421.791 million (2024) |
| 6421 (2024) | |
| Owner | Government of Bangladesh |
Number of employees | 27,535 (2015) |
| Divisions | East Zone, West Zone |
| Website | www |
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| Operation | |
| National railway | Ministry of Railways |
| Major operators | Bangladesh Railway |
| Statistics | |
| Ridership | 18 million (2024) |
| Passenger km | 8,135 million |
| Freight | 2.52 million tonnes |
| System length | |
| Total | 3,600 kilometres (2,200 mi) |
| Double track | 1,600 kilometres (990 mi) |
| Track gauge | |
| Metre gauge | 2,025 kilometres (1,258 mi) |
| Broad gauge | 1,575 kilometres (979 mi) |
| Dual gauge | 1,600 kilometres (990 mi) |
| Features | |
| No. bridges | 3,650 546 (Major) 3,104 (Minor) |
| Longest bridge | Padma Bridge (broad gauge, 6,150 metres (20,180 ft)) Jamuna Railway Bridge (dual gauge double line, 4,800 metres (15,700 ft)) Hardinge Bridge (broad gauge double line, 1,798 metres (5,899 ft)) Meghna Bridge (meter gauge double line, 984 metres (3,228 ft)) |
| No. stations | 515 |
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Bangladesh Railway (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ রেলওয়ে) is the state-owned rail transport agency of Bangladesh. It operates and maintains all railways in the country, and is overseen by the Directorate General of Bangladesh Railway. The Bangladesh Railway is governed by the Ministry of Railways and the Bangladesh Railway Authority with a reporting mark known as "BR".
The Bangladesh Railway system has a total length of 3,600 kilometres (2,200 mi). In 2009, it had 34,168 employees working for the operations. In the year 2014, Bangladesh Railway recorded a ridership of 65 million passengers for a total of 8,135 million passenger-kilometres, and transported 2.52 million tonnes of freight racking up to 677 million tonne-kilometres.