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The Ghost Town - Dhanushkodi

On Explore: Highest position: 119 on Monday, February 18, 2008

 

Dhanushkodi is a city at the southern tip of the Rameswaram island, at the eastern coast of the Tamil Nadu state of India.

 

Dhanushkodi is situated in the South-East of Pamban, the Dhanushkodi railway line was destroyed in the 1964 cyclone from Pamban Station and a trainload of passengers was washed into the sea. . Even though the railway line was laid between Rameswaram and Dhanushkodi, it was in course of time covered by six sand dunes and it was abandoned. One has to reach Dhanushkodi on foot along sea shore or in jeeps on sand dunes.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhanushkodi

 

The 1964 picture of the train washed away by the wave:

danger-ahead.railfan.net/gallery/danushkodi.html

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