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Passengers scramble for seats on Eid trains

| Updated: October 06, 2017 17:23:22


Passengers scramble for seats on Eid trains

Holidaymakers have filled Dhaka’s Kamalapur Rail Station, looking to make trips home for Eid-ul-Azha.


Every train leaving the station on Thursday morning overflowed. Many more passengers were waiting for their trains to arrive.


Some passengers even boarded their trains at the airport railway station, one stop prior to Kamalapur, to safeguard their seats.


The Rangpur Express, scheduled to set off at 9am, was boarded almost immediately upon its arrival at Kamalapur at 8:30am. Though station authorities informed the passengers the train would first be taken to the wash-shed, most refused to budge and accompanied the train to its washing.


A similar situation unfolded at 9:15am as Ekota Express passengers descended on the train with some clambering onto the roof as soon as the train arrived from Dinajpur.


The Neelsagar Express to Lalmonirhat was delayed over two hours from its initial departure time of 8am.


Passengers scrambled onto the train as soon as it arrived, some even making way through the windows.


Bengal Group employee Golam Rabbani said that he had become used to the hassle.


“This is our lot,” he said. “We have accepted it. But the government could improve the situation if it wanted to. Increasing the number of trains would reduce the suffering.”


But the discomfort of travel is forgotten as soon as you arrive home, said passenger Ehsanul Haq.


“This is nothing compared to the joy of being home,” he said, according to bdnews24.com.

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