Chittagong rail links restored, again

Chittagong's railway links with Dhaka and Sylhet have been restored for the second time in one day following derailment of bogies of two trains. Rail services had come to a halt after a freight wagon derailed at Akhaura upazila in Brahmanbaria district at 9pm on Friday, barely eight hours after the rail links were restored. The derailment caused loss of more than 15 hours in the busy railway route. Akhaura GRP OC Saidul Islam said the communications came back past midnight after the repair works were done and the derailed car was moved back on the railway tracks. Two wheels of a carriage of the Chittagong-bound train had fallen off the tracks near the Gangasagar Railway Station, he had said earlier. Brahmanbaria’s Assistant Station Master Shoyeb Hasan said the Chittagong-bound ‘Mahanagar Godhuli’ inter-city train, coming from Dhaka, was stuck at Brahmanbaria, but it left after the repairs were done. Earlier on Friday, railway services on Dhaka-Chittagong and Chittagong-Sylhet routes snapped when a compartment of Chittagong-bound “Jalalabad Express” train, coming from Sylhet city, went off the track at Bizupur in Comilla district around 10am. Services resumed around 1:00pm after a relief train from Laksham removed the derailed compartment, according to bdnews24.com.