You can start right here in Mumbai, at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (the old VT)! Or at Dadar railway station, like I did.

The Konkan Railway winds through the same terrain as National Highway 17, down the Konkan coast.

Since the Sahayadri range hugs this coast -- leaving little space for any kind of coastal plain -- it must have been a real challenge to build this line.

The Konkan Railway is also one of India's newest railway lines to connect Mumbai to Mangalore. However we will now travel just halfway down the line, to Goa.

Text: Gopal MS
Photographs: Gopal MS