Year: 2013

“History is written by the victor!” said Sir Winston Churchill, one of the greatest India-hating British statesmen ever. Much of Indian history was written by the British during the occupation and a large part of this is made up of tales which describe in excruciating detail the glamor and glitter of…

The Railways were a way of life during the days of the British Raj and the glorious history of the Indian Railways is handed down from there. Being sure that they would probably govern India forever, British-Indian Railway companies in the early days of the Raj invested heavily in India…

Dinesh Trivedi’s Railway Budget was daring. Mainly because he dared to try to save the Railways by increasing fares, which did not go down well with his boss who believes in populism, but that is another story. He also dared to depart from other Railway Ministers by laying out a…

The Jaipur Garib Rath is back! SWR’s longest running “Special Train” has been announced to run for another one month on July as SWR continues the tightrope walk of optimally trying to use its two Garib Rath rakes among its three Garib Rath trains. Also, SWR has announced a special…

Those two hundred years the British ruled India were also the most important years in world history, the period when the world was discovered, industrialized and transformed, the British driving this transformation, effects of which are still seen everywhere in the World today. It won’t be wrong to say that most…

If there is anything else as complex, vast, deep, huge, humongous, intricate, perplexing, confusing and complicated as the Indian Railways, that would be the mind of a woman. Sure, the enterprise is no shining example of Swiss clockwork precision, Japanese technology, Italian glamor or German efficiency, but hey, it gets…

NOTE THIS POST IS ABOUT THE FARE HIKE EFFECTED IN JANUARY 2013. FOR DETAILS ON THE TRAIN FARE HIKE EFFECTIVE JUNE 2014, CLICK HERE. Indian Railways had hiked the fare and ticket costs across the board for all services which came into effect from midnight Jan 22 2013. Tickets which were booked previously…

South Central Railway, undoubtedly among the most passenger-friendly Railway zones of the Indian Railways, has announced a slew of special trains and extra coaches to be added to existing popular trains to clear waitlisted passengers, cater to the extra rush of passengers and to provide more traveling amenities to passengers.…

The new timetable for Indian Railways has come into force from July 01 2013. Here are the changes and new introductions for trains running under South Western Railway (SWR) headquartered at Hubli, Karnataka. Date of introduction of all new trains will be announced later. SWR comprises of mainly lines in…