Gujarat’s Narrow Gauge railway attracts English tourists
Gujarat’s Narrow Gauge railway attracts English tourists
By our correspondent
Vadodara, DeshGujarat, 22 January, 2010
About fifty English tourists selected completely different way of enjoying their travel in India. They selected to board a Narrow guage train in interior part of rural Gujarat and enjoyed their journey. For this unique experience the English tourists selected Central Gujarat’s Dabhoi town.
Dabhoi is one of the few places in India where Narrow guage railway track is still in existence and also operational. Before 150 years, during then Gaekwad rule, Dabhoi was the first Narrow guage railway junction from where 42 trains were operated in six sections( Dabhoi-Timba, Dabhoi-Miyagam Karjan, Dabhoi-Moti Kormal connecting Pratapnagar, Jambusar, Chhota Udaipur, Tanakhla, Chandod).
Though some railway tracks connecting Dabhoi railway station are converted into Broad guage, the tracks to Chandod and Miyagam are still narrow gauge, even today.
On Wednesday morning, 50 tourists from England reached Dabhoi Railway Station and boarded the Narrow guage train to reach Miyagam-Karjan.
The English tourists photographed almost each and every moment of their journey, the Railway Stations and the train. They said they had also planned to board similar Narrow gauge train on Pratapnagar-Jambusar route.
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January 23rd, 2010 at 12:19 pm
it is really interesting. this narrow train should keep runnig for tourisum. i don’t think any where in world you will find the narrow gaugae. also dabhoi is the historical place and can be promote as a tourisum through this narrow gage ride. another attraction can be between ajawa-nimeta and vaodara. the narrow gage track is already exist. just need to roll out historical narrow gage train.
January 28th, 2010 at 8:10 am
We lived in Morbi next to the narrow guage tracks connecting to Vankaner. That was over 30 years back and narrow guage was a novelty back then, too. I remember planning a train trip to Vankaner just to ride that train. These go slow enough to give a feel of joy-ride trains. The gov should maintain and renovate any remaining narrow guage lines where possible – they can be powerful tourist attractions.