The Panchagarh-bound train derailed shortly after leaving Dhaka's Kamalapur rail station, causing immense suffering for passengers at other stations as several trains got stuck. In the capital, trains were leaving Kamalapur station running behind schedule.
Rail communications between Dhaka and the rest of the country resumed on Friday morning, eight hours after the derailment of six compartments of an intercity train in the capital, according to Rubayet Islam, signal engineer of the Bangladesh Railway.
He said all the derailed bogies have been salvaged. As the incident caused damage to the track, train services restarted using the other track around 8:30am on Friday.
Sources at the station said the Panchagarh Express was the last train on the departure schedule from the station on Thursday.
The train left around 12:05am and derailed within 25 minutes in the Shahjahanpur area, snapping rail communication. Though there were scheduled trains to depart from the station from 6am, those were delayed two hours due to the derailment.
On Thursday morning, a Narayanganj-bound commuter train derailed in Dhaka's Gopibagh area.
