3 trains run behind schedule: Official

The schedule of three out of twenty-two intercity trains that left from Dhaka’s Kamalapur Railway Station were delayed till this afternoon, said a railway official.

“Only three trains could not depart timely till 1:40pm due to excessive pressure of the passengers,”Aminul Haque, station manager of Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka, told The Daily Star.

A total of 55 trains are scheduled to leave the station today. Of them, 22 trains have departed till 1:40pm, he informed.

Among the 22 trains, only the three -- Khulna-bound Sundarban Express and Dinajpur-bound Dhumketu Express were delayed, he said.

Three friends waiting for trains at Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka on Sunday, June 2, 2019. Photo: Tuhin Shubhra Adhikary

The Nilsagar Express has been delayed for four hours while Sundarban delayed for one hour and Dhumketu for two and half hours, he added.

There is a huge rush of the home-goers in the railway station. So people are taking more time to get into the trains, he said.

The Chapainawabganj-bound Rajshahi Express was scheduled to leave the station at 12:40pm but yet to leave till filing this report at 1:50pm, our staff reporter said from the spot.

Yesterday, holidaymakers going to the northern districts faced long delays at Kamalapur Railway Station, as at least half a dozen trains were behind schedule by one to three and a half hour.