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Train to Kashmir: How railways beat Himalayan odds to build a marvel
Train to Kashmir: How railways beat Himalayan odds to build a marvel
Arvind Chauhan
TNN
Jun 6, 2025, 12:57 IST IST
As the rail link with Srinagar becomes a reality, here's a look at how those behind the project overcame logistical challenges and braved everything from bombs to landslides to pull off the unthinkable
Neetu Sapra has bittersweet memories of the 14 years she spent in Jammu and Kashmir since 1997.
'No quarters, peak insurgency, Kargil War — it was a roller coaster,' she says of life in a CRPF camp in Srinagar with a two-year-old son and a railway officer husband handling a project as fraught with danger as it was technically daunting. 'On a shopping trip to Lal Chowk in 1998, we narrowly escaped a bomb blast. The USBRL shaped us as much as we shaped it.'
