more-inPune: Rail activist Bipin Gandhi, the brain behind the ‘Adarsh Coach’ in the Panchavati Express, passed away in Nashik on Wednesday following a cardiac arrest. Eyewitnesses said Gandhi, president of NGO Rail Parishad, died minutes before the train chugged into the station. “It is tragic that he could not live to see the fruits of his efforts,” a member of Rail Parishad said. The idea of ‘Adarsh Coach’ hit Gandhi in 1981 as an ordinary commuter on the Nashik-Mumbai line. The ‘Adarsh Coach’ entered the Limca Book of Records in 2012 and 2015.

Source: The Hindu May 09, 2018 18:11 UTC