KALKA-SHIMLA RAILWAY ON UNESCO’S WORLD HERITAGE LIST The 105-year old Kalka-Shimla Railway (KSR) that was considered an engineering marvel of its time has been included in UNESCO World Heritage List. It has joined two other mountain railways of India – Darjeeling Himalayan Railway in West Bengal and the Nilgiri Mountain Railway near Ooty in Tamil Nadu – which already enjoy this status. The Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminal (earlier known as Bombay Victoria Terminal) in Bombay is another Indian Railways site in the UNESCO’s World Heritage site list The Kalka-Shimla Railway (KSR) line was opened to traffic on November 9, 1903. Its six hour-journey on 96-km/59 miles narrow gauge route from Kalka to Shimla runs through 102 tunnels, many arched bridges and several picturesque stations such as Dharampur, Barog and Solan. Simla (now called Shimla) was the summer capital of India when British ruled India.