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Watch: Newlyweds turn Indian train into honeymoon suite, staff suspended for safety concerns
The couple asked a stylist to decorate the cabin with flowers, balloons and fairy lights, but their journey began on a rather unexciting note as it was unauthorised
- PUBLISHED: Thu 9 Jul 2026, 5:23 PM UPDATED: Thu 9 Jul 2026, 6:40 PM
A newlywed couple in India headed to their honeymoon suite in excitement, expected to be welcomed with flowers, balloons and fairy lights and even an ‘I love you’ poster on the wall. But even before they could enter it, officials had blocked the ‘room’, dismantled all the decorations and suspended the person who had allowed it to be done.
This was because the "suite" was a first class AC compartment in a regular Indian Railway train heading from Jalna in Maharashtra to Mumbai.
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“The travelling ticket examiner at Jalna has been placed under suspension and an official inquiry launched,” a sombre South Central Railway official informed the media. The couple had even taken the help of an event stylist to decorate the cabin in the train. Sadly for them, their journey began on a rather unexciting note, but video of the decorated coupe has gone viral.
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The railways, in a post on X, said that the couple travelling on the Nandigram Express on July, 6, 2026, had privately engaged a decorator online to embellish their 1st AC coupe. “The decorator's entry into the coach at Jalna station was unauthorised and is viewed as a serious lapse,” it noted.
“The concerned staff member has been placed under suspension, and a detailed departmental inquiry has been ordered. Appropriate action will be taken based on the inquiry findings.”
Honeymoon coach on Indian Railways. Ticket checker suspended.
— Rajendra B. Aklekar (@rajtoday) July 8, 2026
South Central Zone
A couple travelling in Train No. 11002 Nandigram express on 6/7/26 had privately engaged a decorator online to decorate their 1st AC coupe.
The decorator's entry into the coach was⦠pic.twitter.com/1ati4A13G4
Indian Railways does encourage honeymooning couples and others to celebrate in luxurious compartments, but only in their luxury trains such as Maharajas’ Express, Palace on Wheels, The Deccan Odyssey and the Golden Chariot.
Described as “the most luxurious train in the world,’ Maharajas’ Express — which takes travellers from Delhi to Jaipur, Ranthambore (a tiger sanctuary), Fatehpur Sikri, Agra, Khajuraho and Varanasi — costs a whopping Rs2 million (about Dh77,000).
Travelling in other luxury trains (also known as ‘honeymoon trains’) can cost couples from Rs260,000 to Rs2 million.
