Kalka–Shimla Railway

Laid out so the colonial administration could haul itself to the hills each summer, the 762 mm line winds from 656 m at Kalka to 2,076 m on Shimla’s cedar ridge. The longest bore, Barog tunnel, carries the ghost story of the engineer whose two headings famously failed to meet, while the tiered stone gallery viaducts nearby could pass for Roman aqueducts. Ride the little Rail Motor with its glass front and the five-and-a-half-hour climb becomes the whole point of the trip.

Stations

1. 0 kmKalka
2. 5 kmTaksal
3. 9 kmGumman
4. 15 kmKoti
5. 24 kmSonwara
6. 30 kmDharmpur Himachal
7. 35 kmKumarhatti
8. 39 kmBarog
9. 42 kmSolan
10. 53 kmKandaghat
11. 59 kmKanoh
12. 66 kmKathleeghat
13. 77 kmTaradevi
14. 87 kmShimla

The stations on this line, as Wikidata lists them, in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. Not every train stops at every station.

Along the way

• Koti gallery viaducts
• Barog tunnel
• Solan, brewery town of the hills
• Tara Devi ridge curve
• Shimla at 2,076 m

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 331109: the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 38 m of them
• Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 13 m from it
• The operator publishes this line's timetable: Indian Railways, a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
• Wikipedia has an article for this line
• See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it

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