A route being explored is Delhi-Kolkata wherein Agra, Varanasi, Khajuraho, Gaya could be covered Targeting high-end tourists by offering them an option that goes beyond the existing state-specific luxury trains like the Palace on Wheels in Rajasthan and the Golden Chariot in Karnataka, the Indian Railways has now decided to come up with its own luxury tourist train that offers travellers a pan-India experience. Having 22-23 fully air-conditioned coaches, this still-to-be-named luxury train will have luxury saloons, suite cars, restaurant cars, a lounge-cum-bar car, a gym-cum-spa facility and a coach equipped with conference facilities. A brainchild of the Indian Railway Catering and Tourist Corporation (IRCTC), the train is likely to be on tracks by early 2009. With the Railway Ministry clearing the project, the IRCTC is in the process of short-listing interior designers and decorators to conceptualise and design the exterior and interior of the coaches and supervise their actual manufacture. "Each coach design will be different from other and broadly showcase theme of famous Indian monuments and places of tourist interests,' said an IRCTC official. IRCTC will shortly place orders with the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) at Chennai to get the coaches manufactured. Even as a detailed itinerary for this luxury train is under finalisation, officials said the idea was to take the train to all the important tourist destinations across the country taking into account the demands of the tourist. IRCTC is currently working out weeklong schedules for routes in all the four zones. For instance, one of the routes being explored is Delhi-Kolkata wherein the train could go to places like Agra-Khajuraho-Varanasi-Gaya and Darjeeling or a Mumbai-Delhi route covering destinations like Bhuj and Agra. "Till now, the focus of luxury trains has been on what the states wanted to show to the tourists. This new train is looking at offering an all-India product which can take you to most of the major tourist spots in the country irrespective of the state. We'll like to add some lesser-known destinations to our weekly itineraries,' said a top IRCTC official. While getting this rake manufactured is likely to cost Rs 35-40 crore, IRCTC is hopeful of recovering the cost within three-four years, given the fact that this train would have fares in the range of US$400-500 per night. With the famed Palace on Wheel in Rajasthan booked till 2011 and Karnataka's Golden Chariot in a nascent stage, Railways officials said the market for a luxury train like this was still untapped.