Stretching 40,000 miles, India’s train lines are often described as the pulsing arteries of the country, carrying life, work and opportunity from the icy upper reaches of the Himalayas to the coconut groves of the south.
Though hundreds of small regional airports have cropped up and domestic air travel has boomed, the train is the only affordable option to traverse the country that is almost the size of Europe for the majority of its 1.4 billion people.
