AGARTALA, June 24 (TIWN): Sabroom Railway Station witnessed first trial run of train as the train engine came on Sunday late-night. Since the train has reached in the station, local people are gathering to take a look of the train with huge enthusiasm. Agartala-Sabroom Railway service to be started from this month, if everything on the right track. On June 29, 2019, the railway service will be started in the presence of dignitaries. Railway Dept source informed, people of Sabroom (South Tripura District) can have this facility in this month. It can be recalled here that on January 5, 2018 when Udaipur-Garji passenger train service had kicked off, Minister for Railways Rajen Gohain said that by 2019 the Rail Connectivity will cover till Sabroom, whereas the work on Indo-Bangla project is going on in already. However, the works have been completed according to the promise of the Railway Minister.

On Feb 9, 2019 Prime Minister Narendra Modi had dedicated a 23.32-km railway track in southern Tripura to the nation and inaugurated the new complex of Tripura Institute of Technology (TIT) at Narsingarh.Within 4 months, the major development in the Sabroom Railway lines have ushered a hope a connectivity which will connect people with the Maitri Bridge connecting Bangladesh.

Rs 3,000-crore Agartala-Sabroom (115 km) national railway project aiming to link southern Tripura's last border town (Sabroom), which is just 72 km away from the port of Chittagong.

The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has been laying new railway tracks in three places, including the Agartala-Sabroom route along India-Bangladesh border in Tripura, and that would facilitate the carriage of goods and passengers from the northeastern states on the Bangladeshi railway network.

The Indian and Bangladeshi railways are laying 15 km of tracks at a cost of Rs 963 crore between Agartala and Akhaura in Bangladesh to link the networks of the two neighbouring countries.

Broad gauge railway line from Agartala to Sabroom was sanctioned in the Rail Budget of 2007-08 as a National Project.