SOL/Solan (2 PFs)

सोलन

سولن

Track: Narrow Gauge

Arriving at Solan station

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111 YEARS OF UNMATCHED SERVICE AND NO SLOWING DOWN......................THE LEGENDARY BRITISH MASTER PIECE OF INDIAN RAILWAYS and AN UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE..........................THE KALKA SHIMLA RAILWAY Is Undoubtedly One Of The Most Beautiful Mountain Railway Systems Of The World and One Of The Master Pieces That Was Built By The Britishers and Opened on Nov.9 1903.............. Time Just Slows Down in The Mountains When You Travel In It and it is an experience which is worth every Single Penny..................... :)
Seen Here Is Loco No. 700 ZDM3 OF Kalka Shed With 52455 Himalayan Queen At Mini Shimla i.e. Solan Station.................... :)

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2 feet 6 inch gauge No 701 nears Solan with the 1210 Kalka to Shimla. These 2008 built ZDM3 locos look very different to the earlier versions built in the 1970s, which had a single driving cab.
By phil cotterill
VIEW IN LARGE

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Kalka to Shimla Train Journey
This is an old scan of a photo I took while in India. The kid was too shy to let me take a photo of him looking at the camera and would keep turning away, so I just kept snapping happily away. This was on print film, before I started using slide film, I wish I'd started earlier, as the colours aren't that great.
By Leon Steber click here

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