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Palace On Wheels Train Begins First Journey In New Delhi

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NEW DELHI, Sept 5 – Palace on Wheels, a new luxury train for tourists, chugged out of Safdarjung station in India’s capital city on its first journey of the season with 34 passengers.

238-palace-on-wheels-ext-2The train will travel to the cities of Jaipur, Sawaimadhopur, Chittorgarh, Udaipur, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Bharatpur and Agra before returning to the capital on a seven-day journey, Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.

The air-conditioned train consists of 23 coaches and has 14 saloons, a spa, two Indian restaurants and a reception-cum-bar.

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6fa73f2673f57e0ba58cf31057b6624The train takes tourists across mountains, rivers, forests and sand dunes on its one week journey.

From September to April next year, the train will make a total of 34 trips and is expected to carry about 3,000 passengers.

The train is a joint venture of the Indian Railways and Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation (RTDC).

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– BERNAMA