Reading 4 Pleasure School
A LIBRARY IN A BOGIE
Yellow Train is an International School offering IGCSE and A Levels located in Coimbatore and operating 13 years onwards.
Yellow Train is consistently ranked in the Top 10 schools in the country by many bodies such as Education World, India Today, Better India, All India Education summit and many other platforms.
Their innovative efforts to bring joy of reading led them to buy a bogie of a train from the Indian Government and transform it into a library for all children to enjoy.
In December of 2017 the community ran a Marathon to raise books for this Bogie. In a day 16,500 books were raised. by Yellow Train children and their families. It was only in 2019 when resources were available to transform the bogie. It was lifted and placed on the corridors of the New High School Building. It was painted and rebuilt, transformed into a magical space.
It became the Library for the school and the whole community in January 2020.
Now, on a typical Wednesday morning, one can see the primary children trotting to the bogie library for their ‘book sangha’ – a morning of conversation on books, reading excerpts from favourite books.
The school has also engaged in programs like the 100 BOOKS project, biography project, teacher training programs and more such initiatives.