Train journey to London to come true

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Wednesday, 23 April 2008

Dhaka-Kolkata-Dhaka Maitree Express has given rise to great enthusiasm for train travel, even up to London. The twenty-three day sojourn from Dhaka to London is quite on the cards within this year.

A Sunday London Times feature column gives a possible London-Dhaka itinerary. The whole exercise will be facilitated under a proposed scheme sponsored by the United Nations, where Pakistan and Iran will link up their railway lines in the coming months to join the Indian subcontinent’s railway route to that of Europe for the first time.

We look forward to a much shorter time allocated for immigration and customs formalities, with the officials boarding the train rather than the passengers carrying their documents and luggage to the customs office at the borders, as they are now west of Istanbul, throughout Europe. Besides, the introduction of SAARC visas with minimum of formalities and also freely available EU visas will make the journey popular amongst the travel enthusiasts, as this will be much cheaper then air travel for the distance.

Also a linking up of Myanmar and Thailand to the east will enable the traveller to travel to the extreme reaches of Asia and then Russia, Poland, Holland and London. Also the opening up of trade routes will economically benefit the countries and the railway organisations. The travellers eye will miss no marvel of landscape or humanity and all Asia becomes a bazar of culture spanning every dream of life.

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