"Dan enjoyed bragging that the Kamalapur station was one of the largest railway stations in Asia. If one counted the length of its long platforms and adjoining railway staff quarters, the station structures stretched out over a mile."
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Mary Frances Dunham (August 2014), quoted in Some Weep, Some Laugh: Memoirs of an American family in Dacca 1960-1967, Part II, p.21
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Kamalapur railway station
is the central railway station in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh. It is the largest station in the country and the most important terminal for transportation between Dhaka and the rest of Bangladesh. It is also one of the most modern and striking buildings in Dhaka. It was opened on 1 May 1968.
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