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As per the arrangements between the two countries, the Indian Railways and Bangladesh Railways would carry out the trial run between Calcutta (India) and Bangabandhu (Bangladesh) to pave the way for the launch of passenger service later this year, Bangladesh Deputy High Commissioner Md Touhid Hussain said in Calcutta on Tuesday.
The services, however, was expected to start only after completion of the general elections in Bangladesh.
Train services between India and Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) were suspended following the outbreak of the 1965 Indo-Pak war.
Sources at the Eastern Railway said the trial runs would be carried out on the 280-km route via Darshana (Bangladesh side) and Gede (Indian side) to 'sort out various problems connected with passenger train operations'.
"This is one more step towards the process which was started with the launch of a direct bus service between Calcutta and Dhaka and subsequently between Agartala and Dhaka," Hussain said.
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