First Heritage Park and Rail Coach Restaurant will open in Uttar Pradesh

• 16 Jun 2023

Why in News?

According to information received from the media on June 14, 2023, Uttar Pradesh's first rail heritage park and rail coach restaurant is going to open in Agra.

Key Points:

• In the park and restaurant located on Agra Cantt Station Road in the state, people of Agra will get information about railway heritage as well as delicious food. The work of the park and restaurant, which is going to start in July, is going on at a rapid pace.
• North Central Railway & Uttar Pradesh's first rail coach restaurant and heritage park have started taking shape on vacant railway land at the intersection leading to Agra Cantt Railway Station Road Idgah Bus Stand.
• Last year, the Railways had decided to set up a rail coach restaurant on 2,000 square meters of land. The decision to build a heritage park along with the restaurant was taken later. A train coach has been erected on the rail track by laying a rail track for the rail coach restaurant.
• Chetan Agarwal, who designed the coach, said that the train coach is being given a look like heritage and Maharaja train. Antique lights are being installed in it. Heritage and Merecan tiles are being installed in it. The platform of the coach restaurant is being built from red stone.
• The rail coach restaurant will have a seating capacity of about 72 people. In this, 36 people will be able to sit inside the coach, and 36 people will be able to enjoy delicious dishes sitting on the platform outside.
• Apart from this, there will be about 10 shops in the heritage park. Food and drink will also be available here. The first coach restaurant will start in Heritage Park. There will also be a tourist guide Kiosk. Tourists will also have the facility of information about trains and online booking. There will also be a children's park.
• Agra Railway Division PRO Prashasti Srivastava said that the railway has given the land on a five-year lease. With this, the railways will get a revenue of 80 lakhs.
• Hilton Group has taken the tender to build a heritage park and run a coach restaurant. Railways and Hilton Group have signed an agreement to maintain the heritage park and operate rail coach restaurants for five years.
• The PRO said that a rail museum will also be built along with a coach restaurant in the Rail Heritage Park. In this, old signals and box tickets and other goods of the railways will be kept. In this, visitors will get information about the history of railways.