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Baba Bhalku Rail Museum Shimla
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A great Unknown Railway Engineer Baba Bhalku: Focus on Kalka Shimla Rail Line
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Baba Bhalku Rail Museum Shimla, Himachal Pradesh
Baba Bhalku Railway Museum was inaugurated on 7th July, 2011 as a tribute to the man who guided the construction of the rail line with his super natural powers.
He just guided the engineers and marched ahead of them. In fact, H.S. Harington, the agent of the Railways highly appreciated the supernatural powers of the man and the rail line took exactly the path shown by Bhalku, which made the project possible.
The museum has some very interesting parts from the pages of history in the form of a 1930 lost property register. The register has details of the lost properties like bags, umbrellas, caps and coats left in the waiting rooms of the station or the train. The museum also has on display several items and parts used in the trains dating back to early 20th century. An interesting collection of cutlery and fine glassware, including wine glasses and vases, are also on display. There are nice wooden easy chairs, which were put in the rest rooms at the various stations, and wall clocks made in England.
The museum also showcases some of the seals and labels worn by porters and other staff. There are also steam locomotive headlights, brass lamps, lanterns and ticket punching machines. A rail liner used on the track and dated 1899 is amongst the oldest object in the museum. There are also some very rare old photographs of the rail line, stations and the tunnels en-route.
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Mystery man of Shimla Kalka Railway Line (Bhalku Ram) |THE TRAVEL GURU
Bhalku Ram is not a well-known historical figure in India despite the fact that the Kalka-Shimla railway line has been given a heritage status by UNESCO and that almost over a century after the track was built a railway museum known as Baba Bhalku Rail Museum was opened in July 2011 near the Shimla Old Bus Stand.
Part of the reason why Bhalku is not known is that he was uneducated, poor, and from a very remote part of upper Shimla that lies ignored even in the small state of Himachal Pradesh and so is not even a speck in world geography. The literature available on him is very scant since he himself could not have left any written records of his amazing feats; and more importantly on the incredibly-fascinating fact of how he reached the conclusions that he reached, from where major decisions were made by British engineers. Bhalku’s crucial work was between June 1898, when the contract to build the Shimla-Kalka railway line was signed, and November 1903, when it was completed with 889 bridges and 103 tunnels.
Before I come to Bhalku’s achievements, sample this strikingly-parallel story documented by Malcolm Gladwell: In the mid-nineteenth century, work began on a crucial section of the railway line connecting Boston to the Hudson River. The addition would run from Greenfield, Massachusetts, to Troy, New York, and it required tunnelling through Hoosac Mountain, a massive impediment, nearly five miles thick, that blocked passage between the Deerfield Valley and a tributary of the Hudson.
James Hayward, one of New England’s leading railroad engineers, estimated that penetrating the Hoosac would cost, at most, a very manageable two million dollars. The president of Amherst College, an accomplished geologist, said that the mountain was composed of soft rock and that tunnelling would be fairly easy once the engineers had breached the surface. “The Hoosac . . . is believed to be the only barrier between Boston and the Pacific,” the project’s promoter, Alvah Crocker, declared.
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Kalka-Shimla Toy Train से अब जा सकेंगे Baba Bhalku Rail Museum, find our details | वनइंडिया हिंदी
Now you will be able to roam through Baba Bhalku Rail Museum Toy Train. The toy train running on the Kalka-Shimla Heritage Track is now going to Shimla Extension, where Baba Bhalku Rail Museum. Rail service has been started till the Shimla Extension on the occasion of completion of ten years of completion of the Kalka-Shimla railway track as World Heritage.
अब आप बाबा भलकू रेल संग्रहालय टॉय ट्रेन के जरिए घूम पाएंगे । कालका-शिमला हैरिटेज ट्रैक पर चलने वाली टॉय ट्रेन अब शिमला एक्सटेंशन तक जा रही है जहां बाबा भलकू रेल संग्रहालय है। कालका-शिमला रेलवे ट्रैक के विश्व धरोहर घोषित होने के नवंबर में दस वर्ष पूर्ण होने के उपलक्ष्य पर शिमला एक्सटेंशन तक रेल सेवा शुरू कर दी गई है
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Legend Baba Balku Rail Museum Shimla
Built on the name of Bhalku Ram who is not only a well-known historical figure in India despite the fact that the Kalka-Shimla railway line has been given a heritage status by UNESCO and that almost over a century after the track was built a railway museum known as Baba Bhalku Rail Museum was opened in July 2011 near the Shimla Old Bus Stand.
At a distance of 1 km from Shimla Railway Station and 190 m from Shimla Old Bus Stand, Baba Bhalku Railway Museum was inaugurated on 7th July, 2011 as a tribute to the man who guided the construction of the rail line with his super natural powers.
Bhalku worked as a labourer on the rail line and when there were problems in getting the right alignment of the track, he just guided the engineers and marched ahead of them. In fact, H.S. Harington, the agent of the Railways highly appreciated the supernatural powers of the man and the rail line took exactly the path shown by Bhalku, which made the project possible.
The museum has some very interesting parts from the pages of history in the form of a 1930 lost property register. The register has details of the lost properties like bags, umbrellas, caps and coats left in the waiting rooms of the station or the train. The museum also has on display several items and parts used in the trains dating back to early 20th century. An interesting collection of cutlery and fine glassware, including wine glasses and vases, are also on display. There are nice wooden easy chairs, which were put in the rest rooms at the various stations, and wall clocks made in England.
The museum also showcases some of the seals and labels worn by porters and other staff. There are also steam locomotive headlights, brass lamps, lanterns and ticket punching machines. A rail liner used on the track and dated 1899 is amongst the oldest object in the museum. There are also some very rare old photographs of the rail line, stations and the tunnels en-route.
Baba Bhalku’s connection
To dig tunnels those days when there were few modern tools and kits, reveal railways chroniclers, was no small task. The workers used large mirrors and acetylene gas to light the tunnels. The longest tunnel on this track is the Barog tunnel and it was named after Barog, a British railway engineer, who committed suicide after he failed to dig the Barog tunnel correctly. After his death, Chief Engineer HS Harrington chipped in and constructed another tunnel 1 km away from the earlier point with the guidance of Bhalku, a local saint from Jhaja, near Chail. Bhalku possessed natural engineering skills and it was believed that he also helped the British engineers to bore other tunnels on the track and the alignment suggested by him turned out to be correct. According to Shimla Gazette, the then Viceroy presented Bhalku a medal and a turban which are still treasured by his family. The Railways has dedicated Baba Bhalku museum at Shimla railway station to his memory.
Barorg tunnel took three years and cost Rs 8.40 lakh. Many workers, most of them Indians, died during its construction. The toy train at a speed of 25 km per hours takes 2.5 minutes to cross the tunnel.
A similar story runs on the digging of the 992-meter long Tara Devi (no. 91) tunnel which was built at a cost of Rs 3.04 lakh. Since a shrine stood on top of the Tara Devi hill clad with oaks, locals believed that Tara Devi goddess would never permit the construction of the tunnel. One day, work had to be stopped, as there was panic among the workers following rumours of a huge snake in the tunnel. The work was resumed only when it was found that a large iron pipe running along the tunnel for providing fresh air had been mistaken for the serpent.
All efforts are afoot to save the track and keeping its world heritage status intact. How these efforts bear fruit, only time will tell when the Unesco committee comes and review its status anytime this year, says a Railways official.
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Heritage museum: Ride back to inception of trains in Himalayas
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh), Nov 13 (ANI): The Baba Bhalku Rail Museum in Shimla has been acting as a window to the early days of one of the first mountainous rail routes of India, the picturesque Shimla-Kalka route. The technology of Himalayan route of heritage toy train, hasn’t always been as advanced as today’s but was state of the art at its inception. Baba Bhalku Rail Museum, features pieces of equipment and systems from as early as the late 19th century and early 20th century, when lanterns used to work as hand signals for the trains and livers had to be operated manually to change the tracks. The museum also has on display an interesting collection of cutlery and fine glassware, including wine glasses and vases. There are wall clocks made in England, some of the seals and labels worn by porters and other staff, steam locomotive headlights, brass lamps, lanterns and ticket punching machines. A rail liner used on the track and dated 1899 is among the oldest objects in the museum.
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