This is not quite a travel post - let me begin with that disclaimer. And yet, i'm parking this here for now, because i dont know where else to. Also, slightly long read - second disclaimer. Today, April 16th, 2023, marks 170 years since the first train service began in India, between Thane & Mumbai. And it has grown into something much more than transport, becoming an inseparable part of our lives, memories, and even social fabric itself. So many of us in India grow up with a certain fascination for trains and train journeys - it evokes in us the nostalgia of looking forward to holiday travels, memories of watching random villages, towns or fields roll away in the distance and wondering how life is for people in all these unknown places. View of the Chennai Central Railway Station There is a lingering feeling that is a mixture of romance, expectation, and dreaminess that most Indi...
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