Tag: heritage tourism

By Anand Singh, New Delhi : Moving beyond the five hill networks that are major tourist attractions, Indian Railways is planning to also preserve its old five-metre gauge tracks built during its early days in the British era to promote heritage tourism. "As part of the strategy to preserve the metre-gauge lines, Indian Railways is planning to preserve few metre-gauge lines, which have the potential to attract more tourists," a senior Railway Ministry official told IANS, requesting anonymity. "The decision to preserve the metre-gauge lines was taken at a meeting on February...