kangra valley rail
Ever since I read about it couple of years back, I wished to make the Kangra Valley narrow gauge trip. Also with the aim to complete all Hill trains.. Trips done till now
Neral – Matheran
Shimla – Kalka
Pathankot – Baijnath Paprola
Next in target Ooty & Darjeeling hill trains.
KVR is the longest route of all, 164kms from Pathankot till Jogindernagar reaching peak altitude of 1210m. For the first 50kms it runs fast enough covering the distance in couple of hours, with halts extra, then gradually ascending, until Kangra and coming closer to Dhauladhar range, then a steeper ascent upto Palampur, Baijnath with highest point at Ajhu – 1210m (near Bir), then descending down to Jogindernagar at 1139m.
Photo set on flickr
More on this in a photo blog post 