Mumbai: Indian Railways turns 168 years old

Mumbai: Indian Railways turns 168 years old
A heritage locomotive is placed at the Thane station to celebrate the event
This month the Indian Railways will complete 168 years since it first ran on April 16, 1853. For the first time in these many years, Thane station from where train first arrived, will get a heritage locomotive that will be placed at the station. This has thrilled the railway passengers and their associations based in Thane and around who have welcomed this beautiful steam engine on April 1.
On Wednesday night the Central Railway authorities brought this locomotive all the way to Thane where it has been installed at the parking lot outside the railway station. For all these days, it stood next to other locomotives, wagons, water pipeline and other things of heritage value. “The steam engine was loaded onto a trailer and then carried on road all the way till Thane. It arrived on the night of March 31,” said a Central Railway official.

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