TOY TRAIN TO SIKKIM

Toy Train to Sikkim takes shape

SILIGURI, 12 JUNE: The Member Mechanical the Indian Railway Board Mr Praveen Kumar today said here that the IRB was giving final shape to a World Heritage toy train service for the Himalayan state of Sikkim. “Hopefully, the work would start this year. When complete, it would prove a watershed in the tourism sector of the north east region of the country,” Mr Kumar said after a high- level railway mechanical board meeting at the Siliguri Junction today.
“We have taken up a Rs 15 crore project. Work on the project would start once the Parliament gives the final nod. The revamping work being complete, the shed would accommodate 100 diesel locomotives in place of its present capacity of 50,” Mr Kumar said.
“We would also put into execution a 4000 Horse Power engine for the trains operating through the Siliguri Junction,” the railway mechanical board member added. ;SNS

( sOURCE: tHE sTATESMAN)