Classic route
Parabat Express
Dhaka → Sylhet · Bangladesh
Parabat Express in pictures
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- Distance
- 319 km
- Fastest time
- 6 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 49 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- Bangladesh Railway
- Train
- PT Inka rake
- Countries
- Bangladesh
- In service since
- 1986
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Runs Dhaka to Sylhet through the emerald tea gardens and forested hills of Srimangal, Bangladesh’s brew capital.
How this line was checked
- The 119 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 11251492 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 97.3% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 10 m); the longest stretch away from it is 5.5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Bangladesh Railway — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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