HP: Toy train with 7 coaches makes special run — for an NDA aspirant, his father

By: Express News Service | Shimla |

Updated: September 7, 2020 8:34:11 am





The train left for Solan from Shimla with no passengers on Sunday. (Photo: Pradeep Kumar)

A special seven-coach toy train run by Indian Railways on the Shimla-Kalka heritage line brought an NDA exam candidate and his father as its only passengers to the Himachal Pradesh capital Sunday morning.

Anurag Sharma boarded the toy train along with his father at Solan at 4.30 am and arrived in Shimla, around 45 km away, at 7.10 am to appear for the National Defence Academy and Naval Academy Examination (I) and (II), conducted by the Union Public Service Commission.

Services on the Shimla-Kalka rail line were suspended in March due to the…

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