Tripura CM flags off vital train services linking border town
Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Thursday flagged-off passenger train services in the Dharmanagar-Agartala-Sabroom section connecting a border town along Bangladesh.
The state's second-largest commercial town adjoining Assam.
Quick acceleration and retardation provisions make them ideal to ply as shuttles between stations located at short intervals.
Spending Rs 1,150 crore, the NFR has extended the 110-km railway lines up to two bordering sub-divisional towns.
Assam's main city of Guwahati, Tripura capital Agartala and Arunachal capital Itanagar are already linked to the railway network.