Train to Nostalgia

Presently sitting in the AC compartment of the Malabar express, goingback home to kannur.
Indian Railways, the world's largest network, is something my memory connects a lot with. Whether it was a 25 year back final travel from lucknow........ Or whether it was the numerous travels I had to-n-fro my school.
One particular train jour I can't forget is the one I had fromtrivandrum to jammu tawi. A 3 day journey for an NCC camp. 80 boys 15yrs old with 3 people to supervise and passing thru almost the max numof stations a train could pass thru in India. If I am not wrong thatwas the last journey of jammutawi exp ......... I dunno why it was the last. I had a few friends who were travelling for the first time. Some travelling for the first time out of kerala. I had been a commoner to such journeys but always with family. Everyday we would given pocketmoney we could spend and we would decide what we would eat at which station. And hey, I forgot to mention that we were on board a general compartment without reservation. Which meant in Indian terms -Adventure. But can't remember a sigle moment when all of us didn'tlaugh. Was one of the most exciting journeys of my life.
Long live Indian Railways...........