Rail communications between Dhaka and northern districts were restored Saturday morning after five hours of suspension following the derailment of a boggie of a train in Joypurhat.
A boggie of Dhaka-bound ‘Ekota Express’ train from Joypurhat veered off the tracks at Tilakpur railway station in Akkelpur upazila around 5:00am on Saturday, halting rail communications between the capital and the northern part of Bangladesh," said Station Master Tofazzal Hossain.
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Rail communications resumed around 10:45am after a relief train from Ishwardi removed the bogies from the track.
Dhaka-bound ‘Nilsagar Express’, Panchagarh-bound ‘Drutojan Express’ and Chilahati-bound ‘Simanto Express’ got stranded at Akkelpur and Santahar railway stations respectively following the derailment.
