Indian diversity is famous all over the world with the land of heavens in the northern region to the golden desert in the west and widely spread Indian ocean in the South. To explore this beautiful country and its various amazing places, you should undertake a tour via Indian Railways. Covering almost all the area of the country, these trains pass through every city, state or village and displays original India and its living. Let’s have a look at some of the most alluring routes that can make you enjoy the different facets of nature.

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The Snow Sojourn

Linking Jammu to Srinagar and Baramullah, this journey brings you the most amazing and astonishing experience to your journey. With beautiful snow capped mountains, tunnels and frost covered villages, the journey provides awe inspiring view to your eyes. Banihal tunnel with 11.2 km long, is India’s largest tunnel and truly an enormous engineering feat. It is one of the great journeys in India.

Route Area: Qazigund to Baramullah

Train Name: Baramullah Banihal DEMU Train

The Kashmir Railway

Passing through the place we call Heaven on Earth is one of the most wonderful journey experiences by the people travelling from Jammu to Udhampur. This section crosses 158 bridges and passes via 20 major tunnels that creates immense interest and provide gorgeous view. If somehow you are encountered with delayed train , then enjoy the meal at the station restaurant of Jammu Tawi that makes the delicious omelette sandwiches and masala tea.

Route Area: Jammu To Udahmpur

Train Name: Jammu Mail

The Himalayan Queen

Though the complete journey from Kalka to Shimla is barely 96 Kms but it is considered as one of the breathtaking railway journey in India. The rail journey is included in world records for having one amongst the steepest rise in altitude in railway journey. With beautiful 900 curves, famous 102 tunnels, and 87 amazing bridges, this journey give you the most stunning experience you ever had.

Route Area: Kalka To Shimla

Train Name: Himalayan Queen

Aroma of Assam

Enjoy watching the widely spread tea plantations and emerald green paddy as you head towards the Halflong valley before meandering along the Jatinga river into the beautiful Barack Valley. Feel the refreshing air that revitalizes your spirit as you gorge on some local snacks, pakori and hot tea. This rail journey gives you pleasant feeling that makes you feel good in yourself.

Route Area: Lumbding to Silchar

Train Name: Cachar Experess

The Arakku Valley Railway

When going through Vishakhapatnam to Arakku Valley, the rail journey is very enchanting and it feels like more of a dreamlike travelling from palm-fringed coast to coffee plantations and thickly forested hills. You get to see real beauty when the train meanders via thundering waterfalls, green valleys and towering cliffs before passing over the deepest Bora Caves which are very popular in India.

Route Area: Vishakhapatnam to Arakku Valley

Train Name: Vishakhapatnam-Kirandul Passanger

The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway

The glorious tour with the sweet little toy train gives you the ticket for alluring hills of Darjeeling, replete with tea plantations and gorgeous forests of pear and cherry. Travelling through the main road, it’s very pleasurable to watch the loops, reverse, spiral at the Agony Point and if lucky, you will get to see the snowy tip of the awesome Mt. Kanchenjunga.

Rout Area: New Jalpaiguri to Darjeeling

Train Name: Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Toy Train

The Konkan Coastal Saga

The gorgeous route of Konkan Railways along the India’s southwest coastline takes you on an amazing journey via small villages erupting with life, coconut and mango trees lined with sunlit paddy fields and over glittering stretches of water leading out to sea. You will enjoy this one , particularly in the monsoon, when the surrounding outside explodes in green.

Route Area: Madgaon to Mumbai

Train Name: Mandovi Express

The Dooars Voyage

Travelling through the deep forests of Doars, the New Jalpaiguri- Alipurduar passenger provides the stunning experience of a wildlife Safari through train. The voyage through the jungles of Chapramari Forest, Buxa Tiger Reserve, Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary is embraced by the feisty Sankosh and Teesta Rivers offering breathtaking view to your eyes.

Route Area: Siliguri to Aliduarpur

Train Name: KYQ Capital Express

The Sea Bridge Ride

The beauty increases when the sunlight falls on the bubbly ultramarine water of the Indian Ocean and immerse in the calmness of the panoramic vista as the train Sethu Express travel across the bridge to reach the amazing Pamban Island in the Gulf of Mannar. This journey will make an imprint to your memories for a long time to come.

Route Area: Mandapam to Rameswaram

Train Name: Sethu Express

The Nilgiri Mountain Railway

Do you remember the popular Chhaiyan Chhaiyan song? It’s interesting to know that it was shot on the top of Nilgiri Mountain Railway that gusts through the Blue Mountains in Tamil Nadu. The train travels through mountains, snakes through narrow tunnels, traverse over the old fashioned bridges as you pass watching the gorgeous green forests and lush green tea plantations.

Route Area: Mettupalyam to Ooty

Train Name: Nilgiri Mountain Railway Toy Train

The Desert Queen

Enjoy watching the city lights that shrinks into the horizon as you travel via a semi arid desert filled with thorny shrubs and trees and gold like color sand dunes, men with plodding camels and colorful turbans, enlightened by women in perfectly hued local garb. The view becomes more alluring at the temple town of Osian where you get a brief look of the immense dune of the Thar desert.

Route Area: Jaipur to Jaisalmer

Train Name: Delhi Jaisalmer Express

The Matheran Hill Railway

If you want the nicest and the best way to get to the forest hill station, then Neral to Matheran is the perfect journey for you. The Matheran Hill Railway travels through green hillsides and swathes of misty forests providing beautiful and panoramic views and great serenity. The mysterious journey that brings excitement and thrill into your life.

Route Area: Neral to Matheranss

Train Name: Matheran Hill Railway Toy Train

Malnad Magic

The journey from Hassan to Mangalore gives you a glimpse of Nautre’s excellence as the train passes via 57 tunnels, chugs over bridges and provides an enchanting view of the gigantic high mountains wrapped in verdurous forests riddled with glorious waterfalls. Marvelous lush green paddy fields and Areca nut plantations make this route charming lying between Sakleshpur and Subramanya stations.

Route Area: Hassan to Mangalore

Train Name: Yeshvantpur-Kannur Express

The Kerala Anubhavam

Take a peek into the lifetime of rural Kerala, observe the locals operating within the lush green paddy fields and feast your eyes on the gorgeous sparkling backwaters fringed by swaying palms as you travel via Ernakulam to Trivandrum through Kollam. With a plenty of sights to see and enjoy, this gorgeous train journey is surely worth travelling on!

Route Area: Ernakulam to Trivandrum

Train Name: Trivandrum Express

The Chambal Experience

The dramatic changes in the landscape via stark ravines of the Chambal Beehad makes the train voyage very special. Watch the undulating parcel of land of this dramatic, savage and harsh landscape flow by, an area that was once the refuge of Chambal’s notorious dacoits, from Phoolan Devi to Paan Singh Tomar.

Route Area: Agra to Gwaliors

Train Name: Chambal Express

The Kangra Valley Odyssey

The Kangra Valley Railway lies within the breathless valleys of the Dhauladhar Range, unexceeded for its enticing grandeur, with the majestic Ban Ganga gorge and the far down Kangra ditch as 2 piece de resistance of the journey. Stare as long as you wish on the ever gift panorama of snowy ranges, crystal clear mountain brooks and gold-greenish fields as cute little train passes by.

Route Area: Pathankot to Jogindernagar

Train Name: Kangra Valley Passenger

The Goan Experience

Moving through the dynamic beaches to the dangerous curves of the mountains, feel the immense excitement and freshness of the Western Ghats. Passing through the Goan villages, feel the sweetness of the vigorous biodiversity of the Ghats. Observe the Dudhsagar Waterfall that makes you feel the hazy spray as you travel by India’s most graceful waterfalls.

Route Area: Vasco to Londa

Train Name: Goa Express

Hues and Views of Chilika

Take a beautiful ride from Bhuvaneshwar to Brahmapur to feel and experience the gorgeous natural beuty of the Chilika Lagoon on the left and the enchanting slopes of the Eastern Ghats on the right. The journey gives you the exciting experience with it’s natural beauty and vibrant ghats that will surely catch your eyes.

Route Area: Bhubhaneshwar to Brahmapur

Train Name: Konark Express

The Travancore Railway

The gorgeous journey on a prior railway line via the lush green forest of Cardamom Hills as you travel and listen to the beautiful sounds of gushing streams, cooing birds and chirping crickets. The train passes along thirteen pillar “Kannara Bridge” parallel to road and river to pierce a tunnel under a beautiful mountain in Kerala and watching the lushly paddy fields in Tamil Naud!

Route Area: Punalur to Sengottai

Train Name: Punalur – Sengottai Passenger

Orissa Tribal Odyssey

The adorable journey from Koraput to Rayagada travels through the whispering forest, roaring rapids, sprawling meadows and the mystical Deomali hills with terraced valleys. Feel the natural beauty with the ethnic treasure on this lovely and fascinating train voyage.

Route Area: Koraput to Rayagada

Train Name: Hirakhand Express

Island Express

Island Express passing through the long grassy verges and the dense forest of Tamil Nadu and Kerala makes your journey intriguing and charming. Besides watching at the green lushness and hanging creepers, take a peek into the life of men and women working in the fields along the backside of tiny houses and little white churches.

Route Area: Kanyakumari To Thiruvanathpuram

Train Name: Island Express

The Western Ghat Saunter

The person gets mesmerized after finishing the journey from Kajrat to Lonavala. The train traverse into dark tunnels and comes out with a blasting green light on slopes draped with lush green forest and covered with beautiful waterfalls before entering the contours of the rugged cliff landscape of the Western Ghats.

Route Area: Karjat to Lonavala

Train Name: Deccan Express (and several other trains)