India’s scenic hill railways are hard to believe triumphs of engineering that have offered basic infrastructure for socio-economic advancement in set apart rural areas. The British settlement of India left behind at least one institution that’s still maintained and cherished to this very day – a sprawling railway system. Though tracks span the length and breadth of the subcontinent, no part of the system is more impressive than the three mountain railways grouped as a single World Heritage site: the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, the Nilgiri Mountain Railway, and the Kalka Shimla Railway.

Let’s come and know more about the hill trains of India, definitely traveling through these train will be a memory of beautiful moments that will never forget.

Darjeeling Himalayan Railways: - It was the first and still the most outstanding example of a hill passenger railway. Opened in1881, its design applies bold and ingenious engineering solutions to the problem of establishing an effective rail link across a mountain terrain of great beauty.

The Nilgiri Mountain Railway: – The Nilgiri Mountain Railway spans 29 miles (46 Km) of mountainous terrain in Tamil Nadu state. Unlike the Himalayan railroads to the north, this steam-driven line climbs through southern jungles, rising towards its terminus at Udhagamandalam.

The Kalka Shimla Railway:- The narrow-standard Kalka Shimla Railway, which runs approx 60 miles means 96 km and climbs around  4,659 feet (approx 1,420 meters), was created and run at the time of the late-19th century so that British rulers could more easily escape from the humidity at the Raj’s summer capital a hill station of Shimla.

Kangra Valley Railway: – This railway lies in the sub-Himalayan area and covers a distance of 163 kilometers between the Pathankot and Joginder Nagar, a valley known for its natural beauty and ancient Hindu shrines.

Matheran Hill Railway: – A heritage railway in Maharashtra built by the Abdul Hussein Adamjee Peerbhoy between 1901 and 1907. Covers a distance of 20 Km, it moves through forest, hills near karjat and Mumbai.

Really, moving on these amazing tracks of Railway which connect the foothills of the Himalayas with exotic hill stations serves the information of ancient India.