Advance Eid train tickets sold out within 1hr

The Bangladesh Railway (BR) began the sale of advanced tickets on Sunday on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha as all tickets will be available online. All the tickets available were sold out within one hour. 

Tickets for June 12 were sold on Sunday. Meanwhile, tickets for June 13, l4, 15, and 16 will be sold on June 3, 4, 5 and 6 respectively.

The BR will start selling advanced return tickets from June 10. On the first day, the tickets will be sold for June 20. Return tickets for June 21, 22, 23 and 24 will be sold on June 11, 12, 13 and 14 respectively.

The sale of tickets for trains bound to the western zone will start at 8:00am while the sale of tickets for east-bound trains will begin at 2:00pm.

A total of 33,500 tickets for intercity trains will be sold on the upcoming Eid.

Apart from this, 25 per cent of standing tickets among total general class seats will be sold at the station counters.