Guided by a century-old Bradshaw’s Handbook of Indian, Foreign and Colonial Travel, Michael Portillo embarks on a railway adventure across India and takes in the extraordinary variety of the Indian ...

My journey on the great railways of India began on October 23, 2012. The trip not only marked my first visit to India, it was also the first time that I had ever travelled on real trains because my ...

In the United States, where two-career, zero-relaxation families rush through vacations, the thought of spending 38 hours on a tightly packed, open-air train sounds more like punishment than adventure ...