Thalghat

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts.Many units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Thalghat

Kasaraghat

Pass in the Western Ghats, on the boundary of Thana and Nasik Districts, Bombay, situated in 19° 43' N. and 73° 30' E., 65 miles north-east-by-north of Bombay city. The Thalghat is, for purposes of trade, one of the most important in the range of the Western Ghats, and as an engineering feat is rivalled only by the Borghat farther south. It is traversed by two lines of com- munication, road and rail. The road is the main line between Bombay and Agra. It still conveys a large traffic coastwards in grain, and eastwards in salt and sundries. The railway is the north-eastern branch of the Great Indian Peninsula Hne. The summit of the railway incline is 1,912 feet above the level of the sea; the maximum gradient is I in 37 ; and the extreme curvature is 17 chains radius.