Priti Kumari, 34, is the first woman train driver on India's vast western railway network.
On 12 October, she became the latest to join the ranks of about a dozen women train drivers in India.
Now, she is getting used to running Mumbai's lifeline - the suburban train. She is also getting used to the incessant media attention and passengers coming to congratulate her.
India has one of the largest railway networks in the world with about 25,000 drivers.
The western railways suburban network - covering a distance of more than 100km (62 miles) - ferries 3.3 million passengers every day with a train running every three minutes.
Priti Kumari, who comes from a small village in the northern Indian state of Bihar, is the first woman from her village to step out and do something different. And she is proud of it.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Tracking the journey of Mumbai's first woman train driver
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