The Train Now Leaving Bombay . . . Will Travel 1,200 Miles at 40mph and Cost You Pounds 7.50 ; Kieron Connolly Takes an Amazing Journey Through Northern India
Mail on Sunday › February 22, 2005
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Picture an Indian train and you'll probably think of an old loco trundling at walking pace, with people on the roof and hanging from doors, and more packed, possibly with animals, inside. But are they really like that? I decided to find out by touring Northern India by train.
I started at Bombay (now known as Mumbai). The road from the airport is muggy and sulphurous and lined with shantytown shacks, but the city itself is an attractive mixture of boulevards, busy arcades and grand Victorian public buildings.See the full content of this document
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The Train Now Leaving Bombay . . . Will Travel 1,200 Miles at 40mph and Cost You Pounds 7.50 ; Kieron Connolly Takes an Amazing Journey Through Northern India
And while it's hot and humid (30C in December, the cool season), the sea breeze and shaded streets take away the intensity.
The Maidan, Bombay's open grassland, captures much of the look of the city. On one side are neo-Gothic university buildings, on the other peeling Art Deco apartment blocks. At weekends it's packed ...See the full content of this document
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