A LONG HAUL THROUGH TIME

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Raghvendra Rao Posted: Jul 06, 2008 at 0937 hrs IST

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PORTAL INTO THE PAST
The small stations on the route maintain Lost Property Registers, some of them a century old. The register at Sonwara station has an entry dated August 12, 1913 about a lost cap. The station at Barog still has antique clocks, locks and keys, date-punching machines and even antique cutlery from the British era. The Shimla railway station is home to the oldest steam engine operating on this line. Manufactured by the North British Locomotive Company, England, at a cost of Rs 30,000 and commissioned in 1906, KC 520 was withdrawn from service in 1971. It was restored in 2001 and is now used for short, chartered journeys. In fact, the entire KSR is a relic whose old world charm and lazy langour make the journey the destination.

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