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Route:
Neral - Matheran - Neral
Matheran
Light Railway Tour
 Matheran
means “The Wooded
Head” or the
jungle topped. It is a
mountain table top in
the Sahaydri Range of
about 20 square kilometers
with two thickly wooded
ridges, rocky promontories
jutting into mid air and
commanding views of valleys
over 2000 feet below.It
is a custom railway in
Maharashtra, India. It
was built between 1901
and 1907 by Abdul Hussein
Adamjee Peerbhoy, financed
by his father Sir Adamjee
Peerbhoy at the cost of
Rs.16,00,000.The railway
covers a distance of 20
kilometres (12.67 miles),
over large swathes of
forest territory connecting
Neral to Matheran in the
Western Ghats hills near
Karjat and Mumbai.
 The MLR is a linear Property
about 19.97 Kilometers
long and 0.61 meter wide,
which runs from Neral
(located at an elevation
of 39.31 m) to Matheran
(located at an elevation
of 803.98 m).
Neral
is the starting station
of this line, falls nearly
midway on the Mumbai-Pune
route of the central railway.
Starting from Neral, the
narrow gauge two feet
line runs parallel to
the main broad gauge line
leaving the road to the
west of Hardal hill, then
turning sharply east.
The line now lies under
Mount Barry, and to negotiate
the rise here, the line
zigzags sharply backwards
and forwards twice passing
through two deep cuttings.
The line pursues its may
more decorously and reaches
out more or less straight
for panorama point after
skirting it and then returns
by Simpson’s tank and
terminates close to the
Matheran Bazaar.
As a precautionary measure
against frequent slides,
the line used to close
during the monsoons (July-August)
till recently, but now
passenger services continue
even during rainy months.
The railways comes under
the Central Railways and
is being promoted as a
future World Heritage
Site.
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