Halt Station India by journalist Rajendra Aklekar documents the history of the India's oldest railway lines. He tracks down the history of railway network from the first train of the nation to advent of the electric lines in the port city of Bombay. Although Mumbai's suburban railway lines are always known to be as overburdened, fast and ruthless, it remains the heart of the financial capital of India. The local trains of Mumbai's Central, Western and Harbour line has been serving all kinds of its people from all walks of life for several decades. A well-researched book containing biographies, journals and railway articles of Indias earliest trains till present, read it to know about Mumbai and its famed local trains.
