CURIOUS onlookers examine the newly launched KCR train on Wednesday and (right) bemused motorists watch the train pass at a level crossing. Fahim Siddiqi / White Star
KARACHI: Following last week’s test runs, the City Railway Station to Orangi Station track of the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) was made operational and accessible to the public on Wednesday.
The train, comprising six coaches, was being admired with awe by all the people on the platform at Orangi Station. The children there had not seen a train in their neighbourhood before the test runs. And now they were hearing that they can travel within the city and even further on this train.
The Pakistan Railways announced on Thursday it would soon revive the Karachi Circular Railway from Orangi Town to the City Station on the directives of the Supreme Court of Pakistan.The.