Mumbai Station Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus is a beautifull Station Building   formerly Victoria Terminus of Bombay. It is one of the 26 World Heritage Properties in India . Built as the headquarters of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway and opened in 1887, on the occasion of Queen Victoria ’s Golden Jubilee, it was, surprisingly, not built by a great and renowned architect of Victorian England but by a local man- F.W. Stevens.

In the midst of the ceaseless bustle ever- present in Central Bombay , one just has to stop and admire and absorb the delights of this fantastic monument- the out pourings of a northern imagination in a tropical clime. 

The turrets, the battlements, the gargoyles, the delicate peacocks sculptured beneath the eaves, the intricate brickwork, the domes, the arches, all add up to what has been described as the jewel of Bombay- Saracenic-Gothic at its exuberant best.

Let us now move away from the baroque splendours of Victorian architecture to another especially charming aspect of rail travel in India- the little hill trains that haul passengers up from the steaming plains to the cool and refreshing mountain air of the Himalayas and the Nilgiris. Four fascinatingly different little mountain railways were built during the heyday of the Raj so that people could escape from the intense summer heat of the Indian plains.