Heritage train back on track

According to a senior officer with the railway, the train is being overhauled and steamed at the railway’s Parel workshop. The coaches, which were earlier painted maroon, have been painted blue as this is the colour of the Eastern railway from where they have been sourced.

Says P S Gupta, chief works manager, Parel Workshop: ‘‘Trial runs have been conducted and the locomotives are ready to run on Wednesday. One of the coaches has been brought from the National Rail Museum in New Delhi and was in awful shape. It has been completely refurbished.’’

After the abortive attempt to run the heritage train last year, Newsline asked S P S Jain, the railway’s general manager, whether the plan would meet the same fate this time as well.

‘‘We’ll have to gauge the public’s response. It wasn’t very good last year,’’ says Jain.