{"id":7747,"date":"2022-11-11T10:06:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T04:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7747"},"modified":"2025-03-28T22:39:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T17:09:00","slug":"luxury-trains-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/luxury-trains-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Luxury trains in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Luxury trains in India:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>India has four luxury trains \u2014 Palace on Wheels, Deccan Odyssey, Golden Chariot and Maharaja Express.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Palace on Wheels (Rajasthan):<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The train\u2019s royal origins give it its name \u2018Palace on Wheels\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>Its carriages once seated the rulers of princely states of Rajputana, Gujarat, the Nizam of Hyderabad and the Viceroy of British India.<\/li>\n<li>These luxurious coaches lay abandoned post-Independence till 1981-82, when the Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation and Indian Railways launched a special heritage train for tourists visiting Rajasthan.<\/li>\n<li>A Broad Guage version of the Palace On Wheels was introduced in 1996.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Deccan Odyssey (Maharashtra):<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>This luxury train was introduced by the Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC).<\/li>\n<li>The first proposal to launch a deluxe train tour in Maharashtra was made in 2001 and, accordingly, the MTDC and Indian Railways signed an MoU in the same year to turn this proposal into a reality.<\/li>\n<li>In 2003, the \u2018Blue Limousine On Wheels\u2019, as it is named, was ready. On January 19, 2004, the inaugural journey of the train set off from CST Mumbai.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Golden Chariot (Karnataka):<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>An MoU signed between the Karnataka State Tourism and Development Corporation (KSTDC) and Indian Railways in 2002 resulted in the Golden Chariot, south India\u2019s first luxury train.<\/li>\n<li>The luxury train was named after the famous stone chariot in Hampi.<\/li>\n<li>In 2008, the then President Pratibha Patil gave a ceremonial presidential flag-off to the Golden Chariot at Yeshwanthpur Railway Station.<\/li>\n<li>On March 10, 2008, Golden Chariot chugged on its maiden voyage from Bengaluru to Goa, making its way through the picturesque destinations of Karnataka.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Maharajas Express:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Maharajas Express made its maiden voyage called \u2018Gems of India\u2019 on October 17, 2012.<\/li>\n<li>The train draws inspiration from the private saloons of the erstwhile Maharajas\u2019 of India.<\/li>\n<li>The three-night-four-day journey, touring the \u2018Golden Triangle\u2019 covering Delhi, Agra and Jaipur, first began at New Delhi\u2019s Safdarjung Railway Station.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/indian-railways-luxury-trains-tickets-routes-facilities-8260436\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Railway Catering different state governments provide a variety of luxury rail travel in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}