Ten container rakes of Indian Railways carrying 200 metric tonnes of the Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) arrived at Benapole in Bangladesh on July 24.
- The train had started from Tatanagar station in Jharkhand under the South Central Railway and it reached early which was accepted by Bangladesh authorities at the land border.
- This is the first time ever that the Oxygen Express is put into operation to a neighbouring country. These special train services were started in India from April 24. So far, 480 such Oxygen Expresses were operationalized within India.
(Source: AIR)