Bdbusinessdaily.com – Commuters and freight operators along one of Bangladesh’s key northern rail arteries found their schedules upended on the evening of 7 September when a goods coach belonging to the Dhaka-bound Kurigram Express left the tracks at Santahar Junction in Bogura district. The derailment, which occurred at approximately 7 p.m., forced railway authorities to suspend all train movement on the affected section of the Dhaka–Santahar line, leaving passengers stranded and disrupting the flow of cargo between the capital and the northern regions.

The coach that derailed was positioned at the very rear of the Kurigram Express consist and was being used exclusively to transport goods rather than passengers. According to police at the scene, the wagon slipped off the running rails and came to rest on a neighbouring track, effectively blocking the corridor through the junction. Because the vehicle carried only freight, no injuries or fatalities were recorded in…