{"id":14101,"date":"2024-11-05T07:40:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T02:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=14101"},"modified":"2025-04-02T09:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T04:26:13","slug":"kalka-shimla-railway-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kalka-shimla-railway-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalka-Shimla Railway line"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Kalka-Shimla Railway (KSR):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>narrow-gauge railway<\/strong> in North India which traverses a mostly mountainous route from <strong>Kalka (Haryana) to Shimla (Himachal Pradesh).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Construction<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The railway was built <strong>in 1898 to connect Shimla<\/strong>, the <strong>summer capital of British India<\/strong>, with the rest of the Indian rail system.<\/li>\n<li>The project&#8217;s <strong>chief engineer<\/strong> was <strong>H. S. Harington.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>96 k.m. long<\/strong>, <strong>single-track line<\/strong>, often called the <strong>toy train line<\/strong>, was opened in 1903.<\/li>\n<li>It passes through 18 stations, <strong>102 tunnels<\/strong>, and <strong>over 850 bridges<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Total change of altitude<\/strong>: From <strong>Kalka (655 meters) <\/strong>to<strong> Shimla (2,076 meters)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>world&#8217;s highest multi-arch gallery bridge at Kanoh<\/strong> and the <strong>world&#8217;s longest tunnel at Barog (at the time of construction<\/strong>) of the KSR were the testimony of the brilliant engineering skills applied to make this railway line.<\/li>\n<li>It was a <strong>UNESCO World Heritage<\/strong> Site in 2008.<\/li>\n<li>The rail network holds the <strong>Guinness Book of World Records for its 96-kilometers steepest rise in the altitude<\/strong> with a crossover of 800 bridges and viaducts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is Rail Gauge?<\/h3>\n<p>A rail gauge refers to the distance between the inner sides of the two parallel rails that make up a railway track. This measurement is critical as it determines the type of trains that can run on a track and affects stability, speed, and the type of terrain on which the rail can be laid.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/himachal-pradesh\/himachal-urges-centre-to-explore-possibility-of-running-trains-on-green-hydrogen-on-kalka-shimla-heritage-rail-track\/article68828638.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Himachal urges Centre to explore possibility of running trains on green hydrogen on Kalka-Shimla heritage rail track<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalka-Shimla Railway is a narrow-gauge railway in North India which traverses a mostly mountainous route from Kalka (Haryana) to Shimla (Himachal Pradesh).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}