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Gourmet meals on vintage trains; get ready to experience in an imperial way

At least 13 chains have shown interest in setting up a restaurant inside the original Palace on Wheel coaches

Coaches that are run as Palace on Wheels (pictured) are replicas of the originals in the Rail Museum. Reuters
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Coaches that are run as Palace on Wheels (pictured) are replicas of the originals in the Rail Museum. Reuters

Shine Jacob New Delhi
If you love romancing the railways, get ready to experience it in an imperial way, just like the royals of Rajputana and Bhavnagar, the Nizam of Hyderabad or the Viceroy of British India. Inside the original Palace on Wheels rail coaches, you can soon get your favourite food, too.

At least 13 chains have shown interest in setting up a restaurant inside the original Palace on Wheel coaches, currently placed in the National Rail Museum here. Railway subsidiary RITES had floated an Expression of Interest (EOI), seeking proposals from firms to convert these coaches into a one-party branded restaurant. The