Scenic route
Matheran Hill Railway
Neral → Matheran · India
Matheran Hill Railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 21 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 40 min
- Average speed
- 8 km/h
- Top speed
- 20 km/h
- Operator
- Indian Railways
- Train
- NDM narrow-gauge diesel
- Countries
- India
- In service since
- 1907
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A 1907 two-foot-gauge toy train corkscrewing 21 km up to a car-free hill station: 281 curves, the “One Kiss Tunnel”, and monkeys pacing the carriages.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3015969 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits 1 km from the shape of 52103
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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