Jammu, January 20 :

Imagine chugging through Jammu and Kashmir, soaking in glimpses of snow-capped Himalayan peaks, vast meadows and gurgling brooks from inside railway coaches with transparent glasses.

Indian Railways plans to run a train between Qazigund and Baramulla - a distance of nearly 100 km - by the end of this year. Since the landscape is beautiful, coaches with transparent glasses will add to pleasures of journey.

The Qazigund-Baramulla rail link project was started in July 1997 and is expected to be completed by the end of this year, according to V N Mathur, general manager, Northern Railway.

He made this disclosure at a meeting with Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad late Friday, according to an official spokesman. He said the Udhampur-Katra track would also be made operational this year.

However, the Srinagar-Jammu railway track will take some more time. Earlier it was scheduled to be completed by August 2007, but the target date has been postponed because of the tough terrain.