{"id":580598,"date":"2023-05-30T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T05:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=580598"},"modified":"2023-05-30T12:04:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T06:34:08","slug":"kalka-simla-railway-to-get-new-indigenously-built-modern-coaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kalka-simla-railway-to-get-new-indigenously-built-modern-coaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalka-Simla Railway to get new indigenously built modern coaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 120-year-old Kalka-Simla Railway will get an image makeover for the first time since it was put into service with swanky new indigenously manufactured coaches, each with a mini pantry and bio-toilets.<\/p>\n<p>The narrow-gauge rolling stock, developed by Rail Coach Factory (RCF) in Punjab&#8217;s Kaputhala, is the first such indigenously produced train coach, which is reminiscent of the red-coloured Swiss narrow-gauge carriages. <\/p>\n<p>Currently, the Kalka-Simla Railway (KSR) &#8212; also a UNESCO World Heritage Site &#8212; uses coach designs that were made over hundred years back by Moghalpura Workshop, which is now a part of Pakistan Railway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 120-year-old Kalka-Simla Railway will get an image makeover for the first time since it was put into service with swanky new indigenously manufactured coaches, each with a mini pantry and bio-toilets. The narrow-gauge rolling stock, developed by Rail Coach Factory (RCF) in Punjab&#8217;s Kaputhala, is the first such indigenously produced train coach, which is reminiscent of the red-coloured Swiss narrow-gauge carriages. Currently, the Kalka-Simla Railway (KSR) &#8212; also a UNESCO World Heritage Site &#8212; uses coach designs that were made over hundred years back by Moghalpura Workshop, which is now a part of Pakistan Railway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,266,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}