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A new Agreement dated 12 Aug 1918 transferred from the GIPR back to the MLR the “provision of Traffic and Telegraph staff and audit of the Revenue Accounts and Expenditure inclusive of supervision thereof”. It also confimed that “the Tramway shall be solely responsible for the provision of Rolling Stock. Locomotives, Machinery, Furniture, Fittings, Plant and Appliances necessary for the purpose of working the Tramway and for keeping the same in order and up to the standard of efficiency for such working.” <ref name=IOR/>

[[Everard Richard Calthrop]] was the consulting engineer. Unusually for a railway for which he designed it was of 2ft/610mm narrow gauge([[Rail_gauge#Narrow_Gauge|NG]]), with tight curves and 1 in 20 (5%) grades.

The line is still in use today as a tourist attraction. Indian Railways description<ref>[http://www.indianrail.gov.in/hill_Trains.html Indian Railways "Hill Trains"]; Retrieved 9 Feb 2016</ref>:- 'Matheran Hill Railway is a heritage railway in Maharashtra, India. It was built between 1901 and 1907 by Abdul Hussein Adamjee Peerbhoy, financed by his father Sir Adamjee Peerbhoy of Adamjee Group at the cost of Rs.16, 00,000. Abdul Hussein Adamjee Peerbhoy was son of a renowned businessman Sir Adamjee Peerbhoy of Bombay, who visited Matheran often and wanted to build a railway to make it easier to get there. Hussain's plans for the railway were formulated in 1900 and construction started in 1904. The line was open to traffic by 1907.'

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