More than 20,000 passengers affected as 12 intercity trains run behind schedule

Operations restarted around 5:30pm today

Although the railways authorities were able to open the second line around 2:10pm, trains are still running late

Train operations on the down line resumed 14 hours early today after the derailment of Bijoy Express at Nangalkot in Cumilla yesterday

Rail services to and from Chattogram have remained suspended since a train derailed in Cumilla yesterday afternoon.

Rail communications of Chattogram with Dhaka and Sylhet was restored after around 10 hours of suspension following a train derailment at Rajapur station in Cumilla’s Burichang upazila early today.

A high-speed train derailed in the northern Italian province of Lodi, killing its two drivers and interrupting traffic on the busy line between Milan and Bologna, officials say.

A compartment of a freight train derails at the home signal of Gouripur Railway Station this evening, disrupting rail communication between Mymensingh and Chattogram through Bhairab in Kishoreganj.

At least eight passengers are injured as three compartments of Rangpur Express catch fire after the derailment of the intercity train in Ullapara upazila of Sirajganj.

Rail communication of Sylhet with Dhaka and Chattogram resumes four hours after a train derailed in the district’s Fenchuganj upazila.

The derailment of Upaban Express in Moulvibazar was caused likely by faulty lines or misaligned carriage wheels, say officials.

Rail communication of Mymensingh with Dhaka and Chattogram has resumed ten hours after derailment of a local train in Kishoreganj Sadar upazila.

An Indian freight train derailed near Sarda station in Rajshahi early yesterday, snapping rail communication for six hours.

Chattogram’s rail link with rest of the country is snapped after a freight train derailed in Brahmanbaria’s Kasba upazila.

Four people are killed and at least ten injured as a commuter train derailed in Tongi, Gazipur.

Bangladesh Railway forms two separate committees to investigate yesterday’s train derailment in Moulvibazar that halted rail communication of Sylhet with other parts of the country for 16 hours.

Sylhet’s rail link to rest of the country is restored, 16 hours after a train veered off the tracks and derailed in Sreemangal, Moulvibazar.

Railway Minister M Mujibul Haq says a total 203 people were killed and other 586 were injured in train accidents in the last eight years since 2009-10.

An Amtrak train making the first-ever run along a faster new route hurtles off an overpass south of Seattle and spills some of its cars onto the highway below, killing at least three people, injuring more than 100 and crushing two vehicles, authorities say.

Rail communication from Dhaka to Mymensingh resumes, about six hours after a train derailed in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila.