Glimpses of Childhood memories spent at Kurudvadi
Recently, while travelling from Hyderabad to Pune by train, I passed Kurudvadi. I have spent short time of my childhood at Kurudavadi. Kurduvadi or Kurudwadi is a small town in Solapur district in Maharashtra state of India. It is known mainly for the railway junction connecting two different rail gauge tracks. Kurduwadi is known mainly for the narrow gauge railway workshop and railway junction on Central Railway of Indian Railways. A branch railway line takes off from Kuruwadi connecting Osmanabad and Latur towards East and Pandharpur and Miraj towards South-West. The branch line called Barshi Light Railway was narrow gauge until 2008. Now it has been converted to broad gauge. The converted broad gauge track from Latur to Osmanabad was commissioned in September 2007 and the converted broad gauge track from Osmanabad-Barshi to Kurduvadi was commissioned in October 2008. I am narrating my childhood sweet memories. It was in the 1976-77, my father who was working in South Central Railw...