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The Kalka-Shimla Railway

Description: Kalka - Shimla / North-West India

Newest Review: ... place that's smelly, filthy and crawling with nastiness. Our one lucky break was finding that the train left from the nearest platform so we escaped the need to drag our bags up and down stairs or to battle with the coolies for control of our luggage. We stood for 40 minutes watching rats the size of cats running around the tracks, fending off the pitiful scabby dirty children who live on the ... more

... railway station and are some of the poorest and most abused children in India, and watching men squat at the side of the track and piss on the rails. Yes we fantasised about them being electrocuted - the peeing men, that is, not the kids or the rats. ...more

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The Kalka-Shimla Railway: The Toy Train that won't fit in your attic (2094 words)
by - written on 24/12/07 (Very useful, 465 readings)
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Background *********** In the days when the British ruled India there were many problems for an expatriated Brit to contend with but one of the most serious was the heat. The average chap sent out to make his fortune or defend his nation's economic and political interests wasn't bred to deal with saturation humidity and thermometer-bursting temperatures. To cope with these extremes, each summer the government, civil service and everyone with the wherewithal to do so would flee from the then-capital Calcutta and literally 'head for the hills'. Many so-called 'hill stations' provided respite from the summer heat but Shimla (or Simla) and in 1864 the city became ... Read the complete review

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