Train movement from Chittagong and Sylhet (up line) to Dhaka resumed on Saturday night around nine hours after the rail tracks got bent due to severe heat in Brahmanbaria.
Mehedhi Hasan Md Tarek, executive engineer of Akhaura Railway, said the train communication of Dhaka with Chittagong and Sylhet (up line) resumed around 8pm after fixing the train tracks.
“We ended the repair works of the bent tracks immediately along with fixing the fittings after the temperature fell down in the afternoon,” he said, adding that patrolling measures will be taken to ward off such incidents in future.
According to the railway, rail tracks may bend when the temperature goes beyond 40 degree celsius. The tracks in the district got bent for the second time in a week.
Earlier, the train movement from Chittagong and Sylhet (up line) to Dhaka was suspended as the rail tracks got bent due to severe heat.
Railway Station's Master Md Rafiqul Islam then said the tracks got bent at Dariyarpur in the city's outskirts around 11am after Dhaka-bound Upakul Express from Nokhali crossed the area around 10am, snapping rail communication.
However, the train movement from Dhaka to Chittagong and Sylhet (down line) remained normal.
Earlier on Thursday afternoon, seven bogies of a container train veered off the tracks in the Dariyarpur area while heading toward the capital from Chittagong due to severe heat around 12:50pm.
The rail tracks became normal for movement around 16 hours later after it was fixed.
