As a traveler, it is definitely a relief for you that from now on you can buy train tickets for Dhaka to Srimangal or any other destination online from the comfort of your own home. As before, you no longer have to go to train stations and stand in queues. Actually buying a train ticket online is very simple, it takes nothing more than using your laptop or smartphone and a few minutes of time.
You can buy a maximum of 4 tickets online at a time through Bangladesh Railway’s esheba service, and you have to choose your seats from the 5 available qualities.
To buy a train ticket online from Bangladesh Railway, first enter the esheba website. Provide your name, mobile number and email address here, sign up and then sign in. After signing in, you will see a form with six cells. In this form, select from the dropdown menu when and from where to where you want to go, how many seats you want of which quality, whether you have any child with you, then click the Find button. Then esheba website will display the names of trains available on your preferred date along with ticket prices.
If you did all of this right, click on the purchase ticket button and pay for your ticket by credit card or bKash or any other means of payment. Your desired train tickets will be delivered to your e-mail immediately. Now print this e-ticket from your email inbox and submit it along with a photocopy of your National Identity Card to the concerned station 15 minutes before the scheduled time of your trip. The station master will then hand you your original train ticket.
Here we’ve briefly stated the process of how to buy train ticket online. If you don’t understand something clearly or are looking for a guideline on online train tickets that explains the whole process step-by-step, please take a look at this article: Bangladesh Railway Ticket Booking Online.