Government launches Rail heritage digitisation project in collaboration with Google

NEW DELHI: The railway ministry in collaboration with Google has launched rail heritage digitisation project. The project is a first of its kind to showcase country’s rail heritage to national and international audience in an online story-telling platform.

India Railways has a history of more than 165 years and has a rich heritage that includes the Imperial and the princely railways.

“Digitization of rail heritage provides opportunity to contextualize artifact and other heritage assets with the stories thus becoming more meaningful to next generation. Digital heritage also removes bottleneck of being physically there and thus providing universal access to the large repository of knowledge,” the railway ministry said in a release.

“Being a 165 year old organisation, the Railways has a lot of material which we need to preserve and leave behind for posterity,” rail minister Piyush Goyal said.