Now you can buy old train coaches in India and turn them into your room. One such deal is now available in Lucknow

Being a train lover is nothing new. People fancy travelling to unnamed stations on deserted express trains. If you Google, the results would fetch almost hundred plus railway fan pages in this country.

And if you are among them, you must have fancied your own cozy space designed on a railway coach. Like a bar at the entrance gate, a library in on the middle coupe and windows full of happiness. Look no further, for that imagination of yours may soon be a reality.
With the official logo of railways intact, the authority is planning to sell the phased out railway coaches on auction. These coaches can be used to convert into desired structures.

Six metre-gauge trains from Lucknow Division of the North Eastern Railways plying on the Aishbagh-Mailani section have just been phased out as the lines have been converted to broad gauge. Now these six rakes would be out for sale as soon as a committee declares them ‘condemned’.



As per a news report by The Times of India, Lucknow division has 12 metre-gauge rakes (trains) running on the Pilibhit-Mailani-Bah raich stretch and Pilibhit-Shahjahanpur stretch.

The plan is to first ask each division of railways if they have any need of the metre gauge coaches. Western Railway might be in need of a few for their metre gauge section. The next procedure is to get the coaches checked by coach manufacturing units, if they can recycle any parts. If all these measures don’t succeed, North Eastern Railway would eventually auction them as scrap, which is when you can get one for you.
Also the gradual phasing out of currently operation ICF coaches that are fitted to normal passenger and a few express trains would also result in ‘condemned’ coaches.

Scrap dealers who buy these coaches in general dismantle them and resell the iron. However you can buy the coaches from these dealers as well. The price of coaches is based on how much iron it contains. For the last coach of metre gauge track sold by the Lucknow division some 30 years backs was Rs 1,10,000.

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