Railway

For the first time in history, India’s Railway Budget was announced alongside the Union Budget, 2017-18.

In India, visiting railway stations can often be a throwback to another era –the nostalgia, the architecture and the interesting history. These 8 Indian railway stations have stories that will leave you fascinated.

One of the last vestiges of the colonial era railways, Shakuntala Express runs on India’s only private railway line between Murtazapur and Yavatmal in Maharashtra, chugging along the 190 km stretch at an average speed of 20 km per hour.

Indian Railways is all set to roll out its new AC-III tier compartments which will have futuristic and useful features to aid passenger comfort and safety.

Few people know that during the Bhopal gas tragedy, a heroic stationmaster risked his own life to save others. This is the little known story of deputy station superintendent Ghulam Dastagir, without whom the casualities in the catastrophe would have been much higher.

An eventful train journey left Kannan Sundararajan wondering about all that Indian Railways needs to do to make trains safer and more comfortable for all.

Indian Railways has been plagued by several problems – lack of sanitation, archaic infrastructure, low revenue margins, etc. But, of late, the Railway Ministry, headed by Minister Suresh Prabhu, has taken several concrete steps to solve these issues.

Move over destination weddings - the Wedding on Wheels is here! Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), a subsidiary of Indian Railways, has introduced a service that offers the ability to hold weddings aboard luxury trains.

Indian Railways will soon roll out the 3-tier Humsafar Express train with brand new features, giving a huge boost to the middle class.

The remarkable tale of how Konkan Railway was designed and built is an interesting story that not many know about. This astounding feat of engineering had been contemplated and abandoned by the British as being too formidable, but Indian engineers built it in a flat eight years.