Nearly three years after it was shut down, the Neral-Matheran line is set to chug again as the Matheran Light Railway is being rebuilt at a cost of Rs 5 crore, after over a century. The railways are using the template of track sleepers used in the Himalayan range of Kalka Shimla Railway for the project.

The two-feet narrow gauge line was built over a century ago in 1907 as a family enterprise of the Peerbhoys and is now in the UNESCO tentative list for Mountain Railways of India.