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Shimla- Kalka Heritage Toy-Train Journey

Shimla- Kalka Heritage Toy-Train Journey

No Shimla resident goes on the toy-train. That’s a journey for the monkey –capped Bengalis and foreign tourists to make. If the locals have to get to Kalka they would rather drive down or would prefer to hop on to any available public transport. The toy- train ride is just too much of a touristy thing to do.

Its also a more leisurely thing to do. A journey which normally takes two and a half hours at medium pace takes more than five hours in the train. But one would expect the slow train journey to be the natural choice of travel for the temperamentally relaxed , laidback and slow moving Shimlaites.