Perumon Rail Bridge (Perumon)

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Perumon bridge across Ashtamudy Lake, where the biggest train accident that kerala has ever seen, Peruman Train Tragedy, occured here in 1988, july 8th. visit
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peruman_railway_accident
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peruman_railway_accident
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Coordinates:   8°58'18"N   76°36'28"E

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  • WQONDERFUL PLACE 2 WATCH AND NJOY
  • Towards the end of December 1989 I was travelling by train from Mumbai to Trivandrum to join my new job. I was reading the month's Reader's Digest to pass time during the long though interesting trip through Kerala which I was visiting for the first time. It so happened that I was reading the Reader's Digest article on the Perumon train accident precisely when my train was passing over the very bridge across Ashtamudi Lake on which the accident occurred a year earlier. Little could I guess that this journey presaged another event that would be linked with the tragedy. Within a fortnight after joining my new job, I fixed up a house on lease basis so that my family could join me there. Lo and behold my surprise, when I learnt from my new landlord that his elder son died in that tragic accident when he was travelling by train to appear for an interview for a job in the railways ! The scenic Ashtamudi Lake and the tragic accident have always been in my memory as the lone sad aspect during my otherwise enjoyable stay of 5 years in clean and green Kerala.
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