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Link to 'Bhore Ghat Railway Construction' added with extra notes
The narrow coastal plain of India's west side is separated from the Deccan plateau by a mountain range which rises 1200m (3,900 ft) and which has always restricted internal communication with the Arabian Sea.
====Bhore Ghat Railway Incline - between Kalyan and Poona====
The [[Bhore Ghat Railway Construction]] was a major engineering constructed undertaken 1856-63 taking the GIPR south-eastern route towards Madras.
Incline length: 15 miles, tunnels: 26 (totalling 2.25 miles in length),and 8 viaducts of masonry construction.
