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The 12311/12 Netaji Express (formerly known as Kalka Mail) is one of the oldest running trains in India. This train connects Howrah in Kolkata, capital of the State of West Bengal to Kalka in Haryana. Kalka is the railhead for the Kalka-Shimla Railway which runs till Shimla, the once summer capital of the British Raj. This train connects with ...
Himachal Road Transport Corporation, also referred to as HRTC, is the state-owned road transport corporation of the state of Himachal Pradesh, India. [4] [5] HRTC provides bus services to towns and cities within Himachal Pradesh and the adjoining and nearby states of Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Rajasthan.
After much debate an adhesion line was chosen in preference to a rack system. [3] Construction of the Kalka–Shimla Railway on 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge tracks was begun by the privately funded Delhi-Ambala-Kalka Railway Company following the signing of a contract between the secretary of state and the company on 29 June 1898.
Travelyaari.com is an Indian bus booking company headquartered at Bangalore, India. [5] With a network of over 3,500 bus operators [6] on its website and 150,000 bus options per day on 45,000 routes, it has served over 150 million bus travelers [6] [7] till date. [2] [3] It books 150,000-200,000 bus tickets daily through Mantis Technologies ...
KSR diesel locomotive 148 at Kalka. Narrow-gauge: Mountain railways of India. Kalka-Shimla Railway UNESCO Heritage listed track, 96 kilometers, passes through 102 tunnels and crosses 864 bridges. [4] [5] Kangra Valley Railway, tentative UNESCO Heritage list, 164 km (101.9 mi), from Pathankot in Punjab to Jogindernagar in Himachal. Broad gauge
The Kangra Valley Railway is a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) gauge railway that runs from Pathankot, Punjab to Jogindernagar in Himachal Pradesh.It runs through the sub-Himalayan region of Kangra Valley and is 164 km (101.9 mi) long.
The Kalka–Shimla Railway runs between Kalka and Shimla. The railway is 95.66 km (59.44 mi) long, and its gauge is narrow 2 ft 6 in ( 762 mm ). [ 13 ] Shimla is the modern capital of Himachal Pradesh [ 9 ] [ 14 ] and is at an elevation of 2,205 m (7,234 ft) in the foothills of the Himalayas.
The Delhi–Panipat–Ambala–Kalka line was opened in 1891. [2] The 610 mm (2 ft)-wide narrow-gauge Kalka–Shimla Railway was constructed by Delhi–Panipat–Ambala–Kalka Railway Company and opened for traffic in 1903. [3] In 1905 the line was regauged to 762 mm (2 ft 6 in)-wide narrow gauge.