Extend the hospitality of Super Spy, the Ministry of Transport has given the green light to shoot the next James Bond film on its properties, with the pilots.

Sources said even though the railways minister Dinesh Trivedi was a “positive” on the next James Bond film, shot in the properties of the Indian Railways, he did not want to “inconvenience to passengers” in the process.

According to department officials, take a film company who had requested permission to shoot the film Bond on the tracks, presented a final list of two places each in Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Goa, August 30.

What was disturbing that the department had asked the company to “lock out lines for 7-8 hours a day for seven consecutive days.” This will require railway timetables to be reworked, according to officials.

“We asked the zonal railways to examine their claims and get back to us. All the help they need will be given” Chandralekha Mukherjee, general manager, information and publicity, the railways ministry, told IANS Thursday (1 September).

He said the company was told that during the shooting, does not stop the traffic and inconvenience to passengers pay all the fees a local office of the railway in case of damage to railway property.

He said, offering a special train, and making a film company working at the behest of the coaches’ production, was not the problem.

Representatives of the company recently met with the Minister in this matter, said sources.

The company includes the railways is planning to shoot the film by James Bond in February-March 2012. The original request had come to shoot 20 July this year.

Officials said they want to be associated with James Bond because it would be to advertise internationally for Indian Railways.

They said that usually the ministry granted permission for about 15 such requests a month, but this was a hype created by it with the popular figure at international level.

Daniel Craig, who played British spy James Bond in the latest Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, will play secret agent in the new movie tentatively titled Bond 23.