Buy or lease a train! Indian Railways’ boost to tourism; Private players can now lease, buy train coaches

Indian Railways to give a boost to India’s tourism industry by leasing, selling coaches to private parties! In a bid to tap the country’s tourism potential as well as to leverage the core strengths of the professionals of the sector in tourism activities such as hospitality, marketing, reach with customer base, integration of services, expertise in development/identification of tourist circuits, etc., the national transporter is planning to spread railway based tourism among masses through leasing of coaching stock to interested parties. With this, interested private companies would be able to run these trains as theme based religious, cultural and other Tourist Circuit train services.