Rail communications between the capital Dhaka and six other districts were suspended for several hours following three incidents of derailment on Friday night and early Saturday.
Rail communications between Dhaka and Chattogram, Sylhet and Noakhali districts were snapped for over 10 hours while rail links between Dhaka and Khulna, Benapole and Rajbari districts were closed for about 15 hours.
Committees were formed to probe the incidents while no casualties were reported in the incidents, said officials of Bangladesh Railway.
Stranded passengers on different trains and at railway stations faced immense suffering due to the derailment incidents.
Bangladesh Railway鈥檚 Dhaka divisional railway manager Mohiuddin Arif said that a wagon of a container train was stranded near the Brahmanbaria railway station at about 10:45pm on Friday after it started from the station towards Dhaka.
Movement of trains on both lines, from and towards Dhaka, was immediately suspended following the derailment, he said.
Arif said that rail links between Dhaka and Chattogram, Sylhet and Noakhali were restored at about 4:45am on Saturday.
A probe committee was formed to investigate the incident, he said.
Meanwhile, a compartment of the Cox鈥檚 Bazar Express on the Dhaka-Cox鈥檚 Bazar route veered off the tracks at Brahmanbaria Railway Station at around 6:00am on Saturday completely snapping rail communications between Dhaka and Chattogram, Sylhet and Noakhali again.
Brahmanbaria railway station master Jashim Uddin said that train movements on both lines were finally restored at 9:30am.
Dhaka divisional railway manager Mohiuddin Arif also said that on Friday night when Khulna-bound Jahanabad Express reached Bhanga junction area in Faridpur its locomotive and a compartment were derailed at about 9:00pm on Friday, he added.
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha reported that train service on three routes of the southern part of the country鈥揇haka-Khulna, Dhaka-Benapole and Dhaka-Rajbari鈥搑esumed after 15 hours of derailment at Bhanga Junction at about 11:30am on Saturday.
Two relief trains from Ishwardi and Khulna and a crane reached the spot in the morning and lifted the derailed coaches under the supervision of senior railway officers at around 11:30am.
Pakshi divisional railway manager Hasina Khatun said that the derailment occurred due to the mistake made by Point Man Nazrul and he had already been suspended.
He changed the signal without taking permission from the higher authorities, Hasina Khatun said, adding that a three-member inquiry committee has been formed in this regard.
Sumon Baroi, assistant station master of Bhanga Railway Junction, told BSS that more than 600 passengers and railway staff were on the train during the derailment.
Mohiuddin Arif said that probe committees would find out the reasons behind the derailments.