Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Saturday unveiled a special train that would be run on Heritage routes across the country.
The Minister after inspecting a train modified as a steam loco train at the MGR Central Railway Station here said more such trains would be introduced on heritage routes in the coming months.
Elaborating on the concept, Vaishnaw said the Railways had planned to introduce a new concept — ‘Heritage special’ which would be built using ‘steam engines’ as the theme.
“The steam engine as we all know, is very emotionally connected to us and even though it is not running today, we thought we can create a new concept that looks like a steam engine but actually operates by electricity,” he told reporters.
