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75 years of Bhakra-Nangal train: Keeping the world of wooden coaches & vintage engines alive, one free ride at a time. Set up in 1948 to ferry heavy machinery and employees to the then under-construction Bhakra Dam, which brought electricity to millions of homes across five states, the Bhakra-Nangal train continues to offer free travel for all. Roll back to 1948, the Indian government was faced with a tough task of ferrying heavy machinery and employees up the Shivaliks to the site of the then under-construction Bhakra Dam. That’s when the railway link, survey work for which had begun a couple of years ago, materialised. The rest, they say, is history. The project, which now celebrates its 75 years, has seen the train leave Nangal at 7.05 in the morning and 3.05 in the afternoon nearly every day without fail. Residents of the sleepy town would testify to as much. It traverses 27.3 km to-and-fro over its 30-minute trip through the scenic Shivaliks, two horse-shoe shaped tunnels and a 158.5-m high rail-cum-road bridge. All while picking up and dropping off the odd 100-120 passengers - mostly residents of local villages and schoolchildren - at the stations of Labour Hut, Barmala, Nahla and Olinda. The last of the lot is where all non-BBMB employees get off as the train trots to its final stop, the Bhakra Dam.
Karachi, London & Pennsylvania stamps
Once aboard the train, passengers can take a seat on the long beam-shaped benches in all-wooden coaches. The peculiar design dates traces its origin to Karachi, where the coaches were made by repurposing old Colonial furniture.
Chugging ahead is the vintage US-made (Pennsylvania) diesel engine that replaced the earlier steam variant in 1953. Don’t be fooled by the worn-out look on the old beast. Bearing the iconic stamp of the American MNC General Electric, the engine boasts of 400 horsepower.
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