The Complete Barog Story
The Beautiful Barog Railway Station on the Kalka Shimla Railway Route
My Barog (Himachal Pradesh) story is now available at GoNomad.
The Barog Tunnel is the longest tunnel (1144 meters/3752 feet) on the Kalka-Shimla route. The name of the English engineer in charge of its construction was, unsurprisingly, Barog.However, the original tunnel built by him is at a distance of 1 km and the two ends of that tunnel didn’t meet. He was fined Rupee 1 (.02 cents or so) for this mistake and due to shame he committed suicide.
Labels: Barog, Gonomad, himachal pradesh, Travel Writing
posted by Mridula at 12:20 PM
9 Comments:
great one, Mridula..... enjoyed reading it... wish i too could get away just for a couple of days to a place like that....
If you take those days, Rs.1 was something.
Mr. Barog was a honorable man, he just could swallow disgrace.
Our politicians should learn from him. :P
Nice Article :)
As for the adventure (or recklessness) you people did in Barog
A dose of Sidhuism for u
"There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over."
Have a great time
envy you! hope to travel around once am in india!
That's sad!
He committed suicide! How sad. Terrible.
On the other side the picture is very colorful - happy?
Anu I understand :D Hopefully soon you will manage to take a break somewhere if not at Barog.
Tarun :P
Rocksea enjoy where ever you are.
Sad I agree Bindu.
Sujata, I am now wondering why I picked up such a sad part of the story :(
The station looks very colourful and pretty. Impressive enough that I would like to visit the place.
Arun I feel that you will enjoy the place!
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