111 YEARS OF UNMATCHED SERVICE AND NO SLOWING DOWN......................THE LEGENDARY BRITISH MASTER PIECE OF INDIAN RAILWAYS and AN UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE..........................THE KALKA SHIMLA RAILWAY Is Undoubtedly One Of The Most Beautiful Mountain Railway Systems Of The World and One Of The Master Pieces That Was Built By The Britishers and Opened on Nov.9 1903.............. Time Just Slows Down in The Mountains When You Travel In It and it is an experience which is worth every Single Penny..................... :) Seen Here Is Loco No. 700 ZDM3 OF Kalka Shed With 52455 Himalayan Queen At Mini Shimla i.e. Solan Station.................... :)
2 feet 6 inch gauge No 701 nears Solan with the 1210 Kalka to Shimla. These 2008 built ZDM3 locos look very different to the earlier versions built in the 1970s, which had a single driving cab. By phil cotterill VIEW IN LARGE
Kalka to Shimla Train Journey This is an old scan of a photo I took while in India. The kid was too shy to let me take a photo of him looking at the camera and would keep turning away, so I just kept snapping happily away. This was on print film, before I started using slide film, I wish I'd started earlier, as the colours aren't that great. By Leon Steber click here
Sitting by the Door of the Train They aren't quite as strict with sitting arrangements on the Shimla toy train as they are on SW Trains! I spent most of the journey perched in the doorway, with the door wide open next to me and my feet resting on the step. It gave me access to all the best views and a wonderful feeling of being truly alive as I watched the world go by. By Robyn ... more...
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