'Restaurant car, steam-engine look locomotive': Key features of Gujarat's first heritage train
Sporting a heritage look, the newly launched train between Ekta Nagar and Ahmedabad has three coaches including a restaurant car with a seating capacity for 28 people.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has flagged off Gujarat's first heritage train, which will connect Kevadia or Ekta Nagar to Ahmedabad. The three-coach train's locomotive has been designed to look like a steam engine but eventually runs on an electric one.
"This is a new addition to the attraction at Ekta Nagar. This train has a reflection of glorious heritage and yet it is most modern, designed with state-of-the-art amenities. The look of the engine is that of a steam engine, however, it will run on electricity," said the Prime Minister during the flagging off ceremony of the train and other projects during his recent visit to the state.
Gujarat's Kevadia is home to the Statue of Unity, Sardar Vallabhai Patel's memorial.
Gujarat's first heritage train features
- The train has been designed to look like a steam-engine train but runs on electricity.
- Its locomotive has foggers for exhaust fumes and function to produce sound of a steam engine.
- The engine is made up of the driving motor coach of a suburban MEMU train with a nine-metre long steam boiler-shaped structure in the front.
- There is a seating capacity for 48 people together in three coaches.
- It also has a 28-seater AC restaurant dining car with teak wood dining tables and two-seater cushioned sofas for passengers to enjoy tea and other snacks.
- "The train will ply as a weekly service on Sundays from November 5. The frequency will be increased after taking into account the response to the service," Jitendra Kumar Singh, Divisional Railway Manager, Vadodara, said.
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