India, Oct. 4 -- Maruti Suzuki has become the first automaker to transport vehicles directly to the Kashmir Valley by rail. On Friday, a special automobile freight train successfully delivered a consignment of 116 newly manufactured cars from the company's Manesar plant in Haryana to the Anantnag Goods Shed in south Kashmir.

The train, dispatched from Maruti Suzuki's newly inaugurated in-plant Gati Shakti Terminal (GCT) at Manesar, traversed the picturesque terrain via the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL) project. En route, it crossed the iconic Chenab Rail Bridge-the world's highest railway arch bridge, standing at 359 meters above the riverbed and inaugurated earlier this year as a crown jewel of India's infrastructure pus...