Official Name: | Batasia Loop |
Other Name: | बतासे लूप |
Native Name: | বাতাসিয়া লুপ |
Settlement Type: | Neighbourhood |
Mapsize: | 250 |
Pushpin Map: | India West Bengal |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 0 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in West Bengal, India |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | India |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | West Bengal |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Darjeeling District |
Subdivision Type3: | Area |
Subdivision Name3: | Darjeeling |
Population As Of: | 2001 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Timezone: | IST |
Utc Offset: | +5:30 |
Coordinates: | 27.0167°N 88.2471°W |
The Batasia Loop is a spiral railway created to lower the gradient of ascent of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway in Darjeeling district of West Bengal, India. At this point, the track spirals around over itself through a tunnel and over a hilltop. It was commissioned in 1919.[1]
It is 5km (03miles) from Darjeeling, below Ghum. There is also a memorial to the Gorkha soldiers of the Indian Army who sacrificed their lives after the Indian Independence in 1947.[2]