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Saturday, 22 October 2016

08:04

Indian Railways organises Conference on Heritage Rail Tourism jointly with Asia Pacific Heritage & Rail Tourism Organisation

Indian Railways organises Conference on Heritage Rail Tourism jointly with Asia Pacific Heritage & Rail Tourism Organisation 

Heritage Rail Tourism Conference was organized by Indian Railways at National Rail Museum, New Delhi jointly with Asia Pacific Heritage & Rail Tourism Organization (APHRTO), from 19-21 October, 2016. Participants from many countries including Japan, UK, Germany, Australia, Taiwan, senior officers of Indian Railways and other stakeholders of Heritage Rail Tourism were present in the Conference. 

Shri Tim Fischer, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia delivered a talk on ‘Heritage Rail Tourism in Australia’ in a curtain raiser held on 19th October 2016. 

Shri Tim Fischer (Australia), along with Shri Adrian Shooter (UK), Shri David Morgan (UK) and Dr. Nui (Taiwan) and accompanied by Secretary, Railway Board and Executive Director/Heritage, Railway Board met Hon’ble Union Minister for Railways Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu on 19th October 2016 to discuss ideas on developing Rail Heritage Tourism in India. The participants also visited Heritage Transport Museum, Gurgaon, being managed by Heritage Transportation Trust, New Delhi. 

Dr. Bibek Debroy, Member, NITI Aayog delivered keynote speaker in the inaugural session held on 20th October 2016. The inaugural session was graced by Shri Hemant Kumar, Member Rolling Stock, Railway Board, Shri Ashwani Lohani, CMD/Air India Ltd., Shri R.K. Verma, Secretary, Railway Board. The international conference, the first time ever organized in National Rail Museum on Heritage Rail Tourism is having three technical sessions with 14 papers being presented by national and international delegates primarily covering various aspects of Rail Heritage and promoting Heritage Rail Tourism in the world. 

The Annual General Meetings of APHTRO and WATTRAIN (World Association of Tourist Trams and Trains) had been held as a side event. It was envisaged that this APHTRO Conference will bring ideas and visions for strategizing Rail Heritage Tourism in India. 

Source:PIBNEWS 
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Saturday, 30 August 2014

09:58

Erstwhile running Bungalow at Kozhikode Railway station to become Heritage Museum Rail Heritage Museum to Offer a Trip Back in Time

Erstwhile running Bungalow at Kozhikode Railway station to become Heritage Museum 

Rail Heritage Museum to Offer a Trip Back in Time

Erstwhile Running Bungalow at Kozhikode railway station premises is poised to become Rail Heritage Museum with Calicut Heritage Forum proposing to host based on vast heritage of the station

Kozhikode (CLT):  On March 12, 1862, the first train ran between Tirur and Chaliyam, kickstarting the first rail traffic in British Malabar.

Later, after a gap of 26 years, Kozhikode was linked to Madras – the then Presidency capital – by rail on January 2, 1888. Kozhikode’s railway chronicle goes on. And, if things pan out as per plan, you will soon have an opportunity to walk through this railway heritage.


The Calicut Heritage Forum (CHF), a collective of history enthusiasts, is preparing a detailed plan to set up a rail heritage museum at the Kozhikode railway station, which once served as the western terminus of Madras Railway.


A K Kasturba, associate professor with NIT, Kozhikode, and Shinoy Jesinth, faculty of the History Department, Government Brennan College, Thalassery, have been entrusted with the work under the supervision of historian M G S Narayanan, also the president of CHF, and former northern regional director of the Archaeological Survey of India, K K Mohammed.

The team has found that the 100-year-old building adjacent to the present railway quarters that was used as the ‘Running Bungalow’ of the Railways is an ideal location to host the museum. It has been built in a colonial architectural style and the space around it is being utilised for exhibiting train compartments, locomotives and huge cranes.

Currently, a portion of the nearly-dilapidated building is being used as the office of the senior section engineer (carriage and wagon).

The railway institute, which was set up in 1888 itself as a recreation centre will also be conserved.

Says C K Ramachandran, convenor of CHF, “Despite possessing such a rich rail history, Kozhikode lacks a centre to admire and preserve the remnants of the glorious past of rail traffic. Various technological devices and gadgets used by the Railways during the colonial period, models of locomotives and bogies, old buildings once used as offices, quarters and recreation centres resembling the colonial structure are still in Kozhikode, demanding conservation and preservation. What the CHF has undertaken is a mission to preserve this cultural heritage and to transfer it to the coming generations.”

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