Environmentalists, prepare to be blown away by this bit of news: the railways are finally going green. For the first time in its history, the Central Railway (CR) has started using wind, a powerful natural resource for power, to generate electricity and supply it to stations. The pilot project is making use of wind energy to power the railway station of the popular tourist destination Khandala.

Khandala, visited by scores of Mumbaikars every weekend, has the first railway station on the Mumbai division receiving electricity supply from wind, a renewable source of energy