KOLKATA: The Indian Railways, which covers a variety of landscapes and unites people of different cultures, has had a pleasant association with the great poet and noble laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, throughout his life.
His first train journey at the age of 11 years and 9 months was from Howrah to Bolpur on a half-ticket on February 14, 1873, and his last journey was from Bolpur to Howrah, on July 25 1941 just two weeks before his death.
