From the story of a 70-year-old who visited a railway station as a toddler to catch a glimpse of Mahatma Gandhi few days before he was shot at, to a hilarious tale of a tourist with a fellow Indian passenger who tried hard to befriend him and in turn kept getting them both in trouble — Railonama is a Pandora’s box of eclectic rail travel experiences.

Railonama is a compilation of train-inspired stories. Pic/AFP

The book, which comprises of 45 train-inspired stories of people from all over the world, is finally ready for a release on August 9.

“Stories for Railonama have been carefully selected from a pool of over 200 submissions, from people living all over the world who have travelled in Indian trains.