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Posted: Sep 29 2018 (19:56)

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Sep 29 2018 (19:55)   From Nilgiris to Darjeeling: Google Art and Culture App Lets You Hop On Trains, And Time Travel

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Have you ever wondered what would it be like to be inside the oldest steam engine in India, the Fairy Queen? Or ever wanted to travel...

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"I would take the Nilgiri railway train route to get to my boarding school from the Ketti railway station. When I saw it in 360 degrees, it made me feel like I was present there, and brought back a lot of memories for me," he added.
But it isn't only the journeys that are documented.
You can also be a time traveler. At one moment you can explore heritage with Fairy Queen, India's first steam engine, the next moment you can be inside of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, and in the next second
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you can be inside of a Calcutta tram.
Subrata Nath, Executive Director, Ministry of Railways, explained to News18, how they started the process of digitally documenting railway stations. "We started with World heritage stations, then moved to ones which have historical significance, are located at strategic points - like the Kalka-Shimla highway are the ones they wanted to document specifically because they also act as promoting tourism for India. We also looked at ones with architectural significance."
They are now trying to expand to more places.

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