Exhausted passengers wait for trains at Kamalapur

People at Kamalapur railway station in Dhaka have been waiting up to nine hours to go home for Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest festival for Muslims.

Tired an exhausted, many of them fell asleep at the station on Saturday morning as the schedule of the railway’s western zone has collapsed.

The Rajshahi-bound Padma Express was scheduled to leave Dhaka at 11:10pm on Friday but it did not leave the station until 9:45am Saturday.

The schedules of most of the trains to the northern districts of the country have gone haywire.

Agitated passengers said they had to wait in queues for eight to nine hours just to buy their tickets and now they have been waiting for another eight to nine hours due to the delayed schedules.

The railway officials yesterday said there would be no respite any time soon for the passengers of the northern and south-western districts as the train schedules of those routes are not likely to be normalised before Eid.