{"id":651772,"date":"2025-11-07T09:27:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T03:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=651772"},"modified":"2025-11-07T12:03:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:33:58","slug":"sporting-icf-coaches-keralas-oldest-long-haul-train-struggling-to-move-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sporting-icf-coaches-keralas-oldest-long-haul-train-struggling-to-move-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Sporting ICF coaches, Kerala\u2019s oldest long-haul train struggling to move on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KASARGOD: Around 3pm, the electric locomotive pulls into Kanhangad railway station, bringing in its wake the yellow and maroon liveried rakes of the 12602 Mangaluru Central-MGR Chennai Central Mail &#8212; for its scheduled two-minute stop. <\/p>\n<p>The train bears history, as the first long-haul service to have chugged into Kerala \u2014 the erstwhile Malabar presidency to be precise \u2014 in 1867, 14 years after the country\u2019s first passenger railroad made it from Bori Bunder to Thane. And it seems to be having trouble shaking off its legacy, as it continues to operate the old, rugged Integral Coach Factory (ICF) cars, while most other trains have moved on to modern Linke-Hofmann-Busch (LHB) coaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KASARGOD: Around 3pm, the electric locomotive pulls into Kanhangad railway station, bringing in its wake the yellow and maroon liveried rakes of the 12602 Mangaluru Central-MGR Chennai Central Mail &#8212; for its scheduled two-minute stop. The train bears history, as the first long-haul service to have chugged into Kerala \u2014 the erstwhile Malabar presidency to be precise \u2014 in 1867, 14 years after the country\u2019s first passenger railroad made it from Bori Bunder to Thane. And it seems to be having trouble shaking off its legacy, as it continues to operate the old, rugged Integral Coach Factory (ICF) cars, while [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,267,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651772","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=651772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}