Sitting at the railway station waiting for the train. Many more passengers like you are waiting. The noise of the passengers, the hawking of the hawker and the instructions of the authorities to the mic hanging on the platform after a while - all together they are enjoying the time. The people around you, the various products arranged in the peddler's basket or the vibration of the call on the mobile - everything seems normal to you. Everything seems contemporary and real.
But none of the structures that stand around you with their heads held high are of this century. Every platform, a leaky tin shed over the head, all the buildings, including the station master's room, the railway police office, and even the control tower, which stands tall, has passed the age of centuries. Not only that, the foot over the bridge that came to the platform, the passenger has been crossing over his chest for more than a century.
It was said that Ishwardi is the largest railway junction in Bangladesh. Known as the gateway to North Bengal from the south-west corner, this junction is one of the oldest railway junctions in Bangladesh. Everything around has a touch of modernity; Narrow roads have been widened, picturesque buildings have been built along the side, shopping malls with brightly colored lights, all luxury hotels and modern roads have been used for passenger transport. But this junction is steeped in a hundred-year-old British tradition and architecture.
The architecture of this station and the solemn sultry atmosphere will take you back to the British rule. If you close your eyes, you can feel the feeling of the century-old British monarchy, as if the coal-powered historical train of the British-Indian Railway is rushing to realize this.
Railways are quite passenger friendly communication system for land travel. Railways came to the Indian subcontinent at the hands of the British. The British introduced rail services in India to expand administrative, military and British trade.