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Article: A bit like Surrey with a ridge on top Sarah Barrell travels to Simla and meets ghosts of viceroys past, leather-clad bike boys and cheeky monkeys
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 17, 1999
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Copyright informationCopyright 1999 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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SMOKY PINK sunrise has disappeared into another solar white-out by
the time we reach the mountains. It's 6.30am on the platform of
Barog railway station and definitely time for tea: passengers file
off the train hot on the scent of the chai vendors.
I'm on the way from Kalka to Simla in the Indian Himalayas. As we
warm ourselves with teeth-crumblingly sweet tea, we begin to notice
the view. A befuddled outburst from an English passenger follows.
"I don't know where I think I am," she shouts, "but it's certainly
not India."
But it is. It's just that our tiny rail car, the little blue
station house and white picket fence, decorated with bright orange
marigolds in hanging baskets, all seem ...
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