| All ready to guzzle in Kashmir's mesmerizing scenery | | | | population around witnessed as the train moved on |
| and to experience the hilly tack of Kashmir in a train | | | | the highway with the trucks and buses on the sides. |
| in snowy February 2007, the primary trial train to | | | | Hit by surprise as the train zigzagged through the |
| Kashmir started off for the Valley not on | | | | highway, bystanders on roads, in buses and from |
| conventional tracks but on the 300 km-long | | | | dwellings crowded the road all around and stood |
| Jammu-Srinagar national main road, adding together | | | | astonished and flabbergasted. The sole difference in |
| an additional significant episode to the Rs 4,700 crore | | | | these trains is that they are fitted not with regular |
| Jammu-Udhampur-Qazigund-Srinagar-Baramulla national | | | | iron wheels but with unusual truck tyres that do not |
| railing plan. | | | | need tracks to move on. It was perhaps one of the |
| It is an adding up of a further division to an account | | | | most unfamiliar sight and the people of Kashmir were |
| of Indian Railways and Kashmir's national rail plan, as | | | | absolutely zapped. |
| the first examination of diesel movable coach left | | | | Such an exhibition is an uncommon achievement of |
| for Kashmir's Budgam railway terminal by opting a | | | | engineering, has become a reality as first of 24 |
| road route and not a train trail from Jammu railway | | | | coaches moved for Budgam railway terminal in central |
| station. | | | | Kashmir. It was made probable by substitute iron |
| Almost immediately after the 36-wheeled train drawn | | | | wheels of the coaches with truck tyres, which will be |
| by a 460 HP extraordinary engine started moving up | | | | drawn by a trailer-truck comprising 460 HP specifically |
| the Jammu-Srinagar highway at 0700 hours ,It seems | | | | planned engine. |
| unbelievable, but the train is moving on the highway | | | | Considering himself as a man on foot into the record |
| from Jammu to Badgam through Srinagar. It has | | | | of Indian Railways and Kashmir rail development, |
| taken place for the first time in the history of the | | | | driver of the train Joginder Singh was a contented |
| Indian Railways that a DMU has scampered on a road. | | | | and swollen with pride . Coming from Bihar's Fazipora |
| Numerous Pujas were performed to mark the | | | | region, Singh said, "I have done Indian Railways |
| auspicious occasion in the history of Indian Railways. | | | | pompous by moving a most priceless present to |
| The train fitted with nearly 36 big truck wheels | | | | Kashmiris. |
| moved through crisscrossed roads as all the | | | | |