World heritage Kalka-Shimla track damaged in Himachal

14 Aug 2023

India

World heritage Kalka-Shimla track damaged in Himachal

According to officials, a major part of the track between Jutogh and Summer Hill railway stations in Shimla was washed away. It hanged down the hill.The movement of trains between Kandaghat-Shimla has been cancelled. Toy trains, as they are popularly called, run on the century-old Kalka-Shimla rail line.Each train has seven coaches and can accommodate nearly 200 passengers.The 96-km-long narrow gauge railroad, originally built to ferry Europeans to Shimla, the then summer capital of British India, was chosen by the Unesco as a world heritage site in 2008.--IANSvg/pgh

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World heritage Kalka-Shimla track damaged in Himachal

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