Train to Kashmir: How railways beat Himalayan odds to build a marvel
- Arvind Chauhan
- TNNUpdated: Jun 06, 2025, 14:20 IST IST
Neetu Sapra has bittersweet memories of the 14 years she spent in Jammu and Kashmir since 1997.
“No quarters, peak insurgency, Kargil War — it was a roller coaster,” she says of life in a CRPF camp in Srinagar with a two-year-old son and a railway officer husband handling a project as fraught with danger as it was technically daunting. “On a shopping trip to Lal Chowk in 1998, we narrowly escaped a bomb blast. The USBRL shaped us as much as we shaped it.”
“No quarters, peak insurgency, Kargil War — it was a roller coaster,” she says of life in a CRPF camp in Srinagar with a two-year-old son and a railway officer husband handling a project as fraught with danger as it was technically daunting. “On a shopping trip to Lal Chowk in 1998, we narrowly escaped a bomb blast. The USBRL shaped us as much as we shaped it.”
