To meet the tourist rush in Christmas and New Year, two holiday special trains began on Friday on the popular Kalka-Shimla rail line.
Officials said the additional trains will run to and fro daily. One of the trains is 14-seater rail that starts from Kalka town at 6.40 am and arrive in Shimla at 11.40 am, an official said.
It will start return journey at 2 pm from Shimla and reach Kalka at 6.20 pm.
likewise, a five-coach holiday special train starts journey from Kalka at 7 am and arrives in Shimla at 12.10 pm.
The train will start return journey at 3.50 pm and reach Kalka at 9.10 pm.
Five trains run to and from on Kalka-Shimla rail line. Normally, a train takes five hours to complete the journey. The Kalka-Shimla rail track was built by the British in 1903 to ferry Europeans to and from this hill town, the erstwhile summer capital of British India. It was chosen by Unesco as a world heritage site in 2008.