New Delhi: Maruti Suzuki India announced the start of transporting their cars by the Indian Railways to Kashmir, making them the first carmakers to do so. The first train came with 100 Maruti cars that included Brezza, Dzire, WagonR and S-Presso from Manesar’s in-plant railway siding in Haryana to the recently opened Anantnag railway terminal in Jammu and Kashmir, at a distance of 850 km.

Though dispatching vehicles through railway networking across the country is common but it is challenging in Kashmir, and important to connect it well. The train passed the highest railway arch bridge in the world, which is over the Chenab river and was inaugurated at the start of this year coming as part of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL) project.

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