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Dane Kennedy, following Monika Bührlein, identifies three stages in the evolution of hill stations in India: high refuge to hill station, and hill station to town. The first settlements started in the 1820s, primarily as sanitoria. In the 1840s and 1850s, there was a wave of new hill stations, with the main impetus being "places to rest and ...
Ghum (also spelt Ghoom) is a small hilly neighbourhood in the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region of West Bengal, India. It comes under ward number one of the Darjeeling Municipality. Ghum railway station of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway is the highest railway station in India.
It is the highest mountain peak located in India and the third highest mountain peak in the world after Mount Everest and K2. [1] Uttarakhand: Nanda Devi: Garhwal Himalaya: 7,817 25,646 Nanda Devi is the highest peak located entirely within India. [2] It is located in the Chamoli district.
Paithalmala is a hill station in the Kannur district of Kerala in India, located near Pottenplave. At a height of 4500 ft above from sea level, it is the highest geographic peak in Kannur. [1] It is located 40 km from Taliparamba and 65 km from Kannur. Nestled in the Kerala Karnataka border near to Kodagu forests, it lies in the Western Ghats.
The Tanggula railway station on the Qingzang railway in China and Tibet, opened in 2006, is at 5,068 m (16,627 feet). In Switzerland, the Jungfraubahn (JB) is a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) rack railway which runs 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) from Kleine Scheidegg to the highest railway station in Europe at Jungfraujoch (elevation 3,471 m, 11,388 ft).
After the station, the railway passes a busy shopping area. Tung; Sonada; Rongbull; Jorebungalow: A storage point for tea bound for Kolkata, it connects Darjeeling to the rest of India. Ghum: Ghum, the line's summit, is India's highest station. The station building includes a first-floor museum, with larger exhibits in the old goods yard.
Netarhat is a hill station in Latehar district [1] in the Indian state of Jharkhand. [2] It is also referred to as the "Queen of Chotanagpur", and is a hill station. [3] The hill station is the among the highest points of the Chhotanagpur plateau. The natural beauty of the place is simply splendid.
Kodikuthimala, also known as the Ooty of Malappuram [1] and Mini Ooty [2] is a hill station in Vettathur and Thazhekode villages, in Kerala, India. At a height of 540 metres (1,770 ft) above sea level, it is the highest peak in Amminikkadan hills. [3] The British hoisted their flag on this hilltop during a survey, thus getting the name ...