During the railway journey, passengers always used to buy something from A.H. Wheeler Book Stand. A.H. Wheeler had 378 book stalls, 121 counter tables and 397 trolleys at 258 major stations across the country. The brain behind starting this company was a Frenchman Emilie Moro, who lived in Allahabad during 1857. Moro worked for an English firm Bird & Co. and was very fond of reading and collecting books. Frenchman Moro wanted to leave Allahabad but he had a long pending case of disposing of his entire collection of books, magazines and journals. One day Moro was at Allahabad Railway Station and he realized that passengers were keen to read magazines or journals to pass the time. From here he saw the possibility of setting up a book store. He named it after Arthur Henry Wheeler, who was a close friend of his and one of the leading booksellers of London at that time. They felt that an English name would have a higher brand value. And thus A.H.Wheeler started from Allahabad in 1877.
But currently Indian Railways has converted the A.H. Wheeler book stalls present at stations across the country into multipurpose stalls.
