SYLHET, Nov. 13 -- The railway authorities could not resume train services on the much-desired Habiganj-Ballah section as the rail tracks remains abandoned for long years. Valuables from the unused tracks had also been taken away from places.
A section of railway employees even had erected pucca structures for living on the railway lands and rented those houses to outsiders illegally.
Train service on the 36-km Habiganj-Ballah rail route was launched during the British rule with eight railway stations, built in 1928. These are Habiganj bazaar, Habiganj Court, Shaistaganj Junction, Shakir Mohammad, Chunarughat, Amu Road, AsamPara and Ballah, which is close to the Habiganj-Tripura frontier.
Among them, Chunarughat, Amu Road and Asampara st...