‘Why couldn’t we make our own high-speed trains?’: Meet the men who brought Train 18 to life


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“Indian trains are never white, because in India we have a belief that anything white would look dirty faster,” Manish Pradhan jokes. “So, we decided our train will be all white and it will not look dirty. Look at it now.” Pradhan was the engineer in charge of furnishings of the first Vande Bharat trains, and a part of the motley group of engineers who designed India’s marquee semi-high speed trainsets at Cehnnai’s Integral Coach Factory (ICF) in 2018. It has been four years since the first Vande Bharat was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 15, 2019....