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The Sabarmati Express is an express train which connects the city of Ahmedabad, India to Darbhanga city in the northern state of Bihar through Ashoknagar. The train may take up to two days to complete the journey. It travels through Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh via Ratlam Junction, Ujjain Junction, Guna Junction, Kanpur Central, Lucknow Junction, Ayodhya, Faizabad, Goshainganj Mau Terminal and Chappra Junction.
It enters Gujarat from Dahod Railway station then Godhra, Vadodara and Ahmedabad
On February 27, 2002, the train was stopped outside Godhra station due to the emergency chain being pulled. The train was then attacked and four coaches were burned by a large mob. It has been proved that the attack was the result of a conspiracy hatched by local Muslims. 58 people, including some Hindu pilgrims who were returning from the holy city of Ayodhya, were trapped and killed in the burning train. That incident is worked as the trigger for the widespread riots that followed in Godhra as well as the rest of Gujarat in which more than a thousand individuals died, thousands more were rendered homeless and property worth hundreds of crores was lost.
References
- BBC News
- The Godhra conspiracy as Justice Nanavati saw it The Times of India, 28 September 2008. Retrieved 2012-02-19. Archived 21 February 2012.
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