Kalka-Shimla Railway

To make Shimla accessible the British had a railway built there. The Kalka-Shimla railway truly is a remarkable feat of engineering because the terrain in the Himalayas surely isn't suitable for railways.

India 2004 part III - Shimla, New Delhi and a bit more

July 14th 2004
Bhandasar Jain Temple In the previous blog entry we ended by writing about a very odd temple in the town Deshnoke in Bikaner district in Rajasthan. To go to that temple we passed through the city Bikaner. There we visited the Bhandasar Jain Temple, a temple with im ... read more

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28th October 2022

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

969 bridges and 103 tunnels
Never ceases to amaze me of the money that ebbs and flows in this World. 969 bridges and 103 tunnels required from Kalka to Shimla presumably because someone decided it was worth the expense and labour to move to a cooler clime when the whim decided. Thanks for the info...fascinating! I'll post it in the Trains thread in the Photography Forum.

30th October 2022

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

I did not know about the trains in the forum
I didn't know there was a train thread in the forum. Thank you for posting it there. Possibly I have one or two other pictures that fits there. Maybe I can find the time to have a looka at it. /Ake

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