His stories instruct and entertain, bringing the past of Indian Railways alive in the present. Did you know that India’ s first steam engine never ran on tracks and was actually used to run driving mills in a factory? That the maximum speed of the first commercial train in India was 4.5 miles/hour? That the country’ s first-ever steamocomotive could never be introduced commercially since it was destroyed in a factory blast? That theocomotive engine for the maiden rail run between Bombay and Thane was pulled by 200 coolies on streets? That there actually was a plan to build a rail network from the English Channel all the way to the river Indus? This is a people’ s history of Indian Railways. Anecdotes and stories are curated from the time the first wagon rolled in India, up to the advent of bullet trains.

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RAJENDRA B. AKLEKAR (born 1974) is an Indian journalist with more than two decades of experience. He is presently with Mid-Day, Mumbai, as Senior Assistant Editor. Rajendra is the bestselling author of Halt Station India and India’ s Railways Man: A Biography of E. Sreedharan.

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