Mountain Railways of India
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Mountain Railways of India, still operational today.
These hill passenger railways crossing regions of great beauty are outstanding examples of bold,
ingenious engineering solutions for the problem of establishing an effective rail link
through a rugged, mountainous terrain.
The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway opened in 1881, while the Nilgiri Mountain Railway, though proposed in 1854, was begun in 1891 and completed in 1908 due to the difficulty of the mountainous location which scales an elevation of 326m to 2,203m. It was highly significant in facilitating population movement and the social-economic development in the British colonial era.
Since 1999, Mountain Railways of India has been declared as UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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