National Desk, Bangladesh Global: Barendra express train with around 850
passengers had a narrow escape from an accident as its driver managed to stop
after seeing a danger (red) signal at near Nandangachhi station under
Charghat upazila of the district this morning.
Local people found a broken part of the railway track before the arrival of
the train around 11.10 am when they were going to work in the farming field.
They promptly raised a red signal through using their red wrappers at the
danger point.
The express train runs between Rajshahi and Chilahati was heading to Rajshahi
at that time. Railway communication on the route remained suspended for
around due to the unexpected incident.
Seeing the red signal, the loco master of the running train managed to halt
the train around 500-yard away from the point.
Asim Kumar Talukder, general manager of the West Zone Railway, told BSS that
the express train escaped from an accident narrowly by dint of intelligence
of the local people.
"We have completed the repairing works of the broken track around 12.10 noon
and the scheduled trains from both the sides started playing subsequently,"
he added.
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