Konkan Railway

Ratnagiri → Goa, down the Konkan coast

A new journey along India's west coast, from Ratnagiri to Goa. The line crosses high viaducts and the red laterite plateau, runs through paddy and palms below the flat-topped mesas of the Western Ghats, and crosses the Goan estuaries on long truss bridges.

Stories you might catch

55 small stories are woven through this railway, and every journey picks its own from the season, the weather and the hour. A few of them:

• Diwali night
• Ganesh season: pandals by the road
• A child waves at the train
• The Ro-Ro: lorries riding the rails
• A peacock on the bund
• A church feast at night
• Planting out the monsoon paddy
• Mango time, the gulmohar aflame

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