India, March 15 -- By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD

In this fourth episode of the reminiscences of my rail journeys from the past, I would like to point out that I am finding it rather difficult to stop my ramblings on this topic, for the simple reason that many readers have kept urging me to write more on the same subject, which seems to be as dear to them, as it is to me.

Going by this observation, it is perhaps rightly said that rail travel has a very unique kind of romance, that comes attached to no other mode of travel, although travelling itself, by any means, happens to be a very romantic activity.

This is also why hundreds of books have been written by avid and even intrepid rail travellers from across the world, with a good many of...