The Indian Railways runs around 11,000 trains across the country of which 7000 are passengers trains transporting 13 million passengers. It’s not uncommon, then, to find as in the picture, an entire wall listing trains that pass through a particular station. This saves the bother of waiting in queue for standardised information like train number, train name, the origin and destination, time at which it passes this specific station and frequency during the week.
An edited version of the article was published in Culturama’s September 2012 Issue.
