Conference on Heritage Rail Tourism
Indian Railways organised a Conference on Heritage Rail Tourism at National Rail Museum, New Delhi, jointly with Asia Pacific Heritage & Rail Tourism Organisation (APHRTO), from October 19-21, 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 during 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 October 19, 2016. Shri Tim Fischer (Australia), along with Shri Adrian Shooter (UK), Shri David Morgan (UK) and Dr. Nui (Taiwan), accompanied by Secretary, Railway Board and Executive Director/Heritage, Railway Board, met Hon’ble Union Minister for Railways Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu on October 19, 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. The Annual General Meeting 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 strategising Rail Heritage Tourism in India.
Introducing a direct train between Balia and Delhi Minister of Railways Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu has inaugurated the Train No. 22427/22428 (Balia – Anand Vihar Terminus – Balia) weekly on October 28, 2016. Speaking on the occasion, the Minister said that it was a long pending demand of the Ballia people to introduce a direct train between Ballia and Delhi which has now been fulfilled on
the auspicious occasion of Diwali. Minister of State for Railways & Minister of State for Communication (Independent Charge) Shri Manoj Sinha said that Indian Railways wants to bring every corner of the country on railway map in true spirit and is working in that direction effortlessly.
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