Railways Minister Asks Internet To Guess "Train In The Making", Drops Major Hint
Many claimed the coaches belonged to new toy trains planned for the Kalka-Shimla route.
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Many claimed the coaches belonged to new toy trains planned for the Kalka-Shimla route.
The project posed significant challenges for the Rail Coach Factory as there was no digital data for modelling of narrow-gauge tracks for the development and verification of coach designs which were developed around 1908.
The Kalka-Shimla narrow-gauge track is a 96.6 kilometres long working rail link with a 0.762-metre gauge. The line was opened in November 1903, just about 12 years after the Delhi railway line was linked to Kalka in 1891.
On the debacle of BJP in the recently concluded assembly election in Karnataka, the minister noted that while the party's vote share has not come down from 36 per cent, it lost polls due to "some other reasons and would introspect" and rectify its mistakes.
Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has ruled out the possibility of the BJP reviving its alliance with the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) for the Lok Sabha polls next year.