26 January 2015 (Republic Day), I reached Hazrat Nizamuddin – the last railway station for the train, but I had to continue the further journey to New Delhi railway station. Pre-paid autos for New Delhi were there outside the station,…
(Distance from Guptkashi in Km) Guptkashi – 0, Delhi – 425, Haridwar – 203, Rishikesh – 181, Srinagar – 76
(Distance from Attari/Wagh Border in Km) Attari/Wagah Border – 0, Delhi – 491, Pathankot – 137, Amritsar – 32
This photo was taken in the Upper-Class Railway Waiting Room at New Delhi Railway Station.
Waiting room (mostly at platform no. 1) is one of the finest facilities provided by Indian Railways at most of the railway stations in India. I many times tried to avail this wonderful facility. All one has to do is…
We arrived at N. Delhi Railway Station via train. After a few hours, another train for the next journey, and in between hours, we wanted to visit Janpath behind the LIC building, Connaught Place for shopping. Janpath has been my…
Delhi had become the new capital of British India in 1911, and rapidly developing Lutyen’s Delhi needed a railway station to serve the new city. Near the end of World War 1, the government constituted the Delhi Line Committee to…
(Distance from Mandi in km) Mandi – 0, Bilaspur – 67, Swarghat – 107, Shimla – 159, Chandigarh – 199, Delhi – 479
Haridwar–Delhi train was leaving Haridwar station at 7:45 am, and I was stuck in traffic at Raiwala near Rishikesh. I can’t imagine that even during the morning hours this will happen. By the time I reached Haridwar, it was 8:00…