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Pietermaritzburg Railway Station is the main railway station serving the city of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. ... Historically, the station is famous as being the place where Mahatma Gandhi was thrown off a train for riding first class in 1893.
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- The platforms of the station are empty — they aren’t expecting any trains anytime soon — but a trip there is bound to make any Indian traveller patriotic.
- It was at Pietermaritzburg station that a young lawyer named Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was pushed out of a first-class compartment, thus prompting him to think about race and colour prejudices.
- This nondescript, not-so-busy station in South Africa is known worldwide today as the ‘Birthplace of Sathyagraha’.
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