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Sreedharan’s expertise and foresight-on behalf of those not as richly blessed as he was-ensured that political will was converted into a multipurpose railway project. The bridge was completed eleven weeks ahead of schedule and proved to be helpful to one and all.
Two key railway projects changed the way India travels by train-the 760-km stretch of Konkan Railway and the Delhi Metro. Both the projects were up and running in seven years flat and the man in ...
Halt Station India chronicles the dramatic rise of India s original rail network, the arrival of the first train, and the subsequent emergence of a pioneering electric line all in the port city of Bombay. Trains that once provoked awe and fear they were viewed as fire chariots, smoke-spewing demons have today become a nation s lifeblood.
Taking a walk along India s first rail lines, the author stumbles upon fragments of the past a clock at Victoria Terminus that ...