About Bongaon ( Bangaon )

Bangaon (Bengali: ) is a city and a municipality in North 24 Parganas district in the state of West Bengal, India. Bangaon is headquarters of Bangaon subdivision. Bangaon is located at 2304N 8849E / 23.07N 88.82E / 23.07; 88.82. It has an average elevation of 7metres (22feet). It is the last station on the Sealdah-Bangaon section of Eastern Railway, 77km from Sealdah Station. It is part of the Kolkata Suburban Railway system. The Sealdah Bangaon railway was built between 1882 and 1884. Bangaon is near the border with Bangladesh. The railway route to East Bengal was established in 1884 and the Barisal Express operated passenger services till 1947. After the partition, a mixed service (passenger and goods) continued till the Indo-Pakistan war of 1965. With the creation of Bangladesh, the goods train service was reintroduced for two years from 1972 but again closed for lack of goods. India and Bangladesh signed an agreement in July last to re- establish the train link....