While Bangalore ponders its “connectivity” with the new international airport at Devanahalli, SUDHEENDRA MURALIDHARA forwards a picture of the airport at Antananarivo in Madagascar, “probably the only airport in the world where a railway line runs through the runway.” The railway line connects the capital with Toamasina, the Indian Ocean island’s chief port, off the southeastern coast of Africa.
The old Safdarjung Airport in Delhi is also unique in that a railway line, a road, and a water body within a park, all run parallel to the runway from where Sanjay Gandhi took off, never to return.
If I am not wrong, there is a level crossing on Peshar airport runway too
…then why all the fuss about the Rly line and the little highway alongside Mys Airport??? With some forward thinking, the Rly link could be used to serve the Airport and not create a situation like Blr.
Hi
We have seen Rail Road competition.
Is this ‘Rail -Air competition’ ?
If Laloo sees this, he may start such
ventures, first in Bihar and then all over !
Actually, the picture is of the Fianarantsoa-Cote Est Railway, which connects the Malagasy city of Fianarantsoa with the port-city of Manakara (this is the Manakara airport). Just went on the FCE line a few weeks ago and the railway is a real joy, but from what I hear there are almost no flights to Manakara these days.
Thanks for the tips on other airport-railway crossings!