The disruption of the train schedule between Dhaka and the north-western routes continued for the third consecutive day on Sunday, causing thousands of passengers to suffer.
Though no train was cancelled on Sunday, officials said that some trains were up to 12 hours behind schedule.
Passengers were seen waiting at different stations in the capital due to the schedule collapse of trains.
The railway鈥檚 west zone general manager, Asim Kumar Talukder, hoped that the schedules of the trains could become normal by today.
The disruption mostly started after a commuter train hit a standing oil tanker train in the Kazibari area near Joydebpur station in Gazipur at about 11:00am on May 3.
The accident left four people injured, and four compartments of the train and six wagons of the oil tanker derailed.
Train services on the route could be resumed only partially using one line some two and a half hours after the accident.
It took the authorities about 31 hours to remove the derailed train compartments and wagons and resume full rain communications around 7:00pm on Saturday.
Since the accident, all trains on the route have been running several hours behind schedule.
Since Sunday morning, a large number of passengers have been seen waiting at Dhaka railway station in Kamalapur for different trains.
West zone general manager Asim said that trains on the Rangpur and Panchagarh routes were mostly delayed.
鈥楾he Rangpur Express on the Dhaka鈥揜angpur route is running around 12 hours late,鈥� he said.
According to Dhaka railway station Masud Sarwar, intercity trains make at least 28 trips up and down on north-western routes, with each having a capacity of carrying between 700 and 920 passengers, indicating the number of sufferers due to schedule collapse.
On Sunday, the Ekota Express on the Dhaka-Panchagarh route and the Banalata Express on the Dhaka-Chapainawabganj route ran four hours late, and the Drutajan Express on the Panchagarh-Dhaka route ran three hours late.