1853 is a railway building game using the 18xx game system, set in imperial India. It was originally published in 1989 by Hartland Trefoil. Contrary to many other 18xx games, 1853 does not require aggressive stock trading, but skills in engineering the best possible routes.
This is the Indian sub-continent (British Imperial India) member of the 18xx family of games. It is billed as A game for engineers who've had enough of the financiers! It involves five-foot-six and metre gauges, hills, mountains and the Himalayas, contract bids and government mails. The technical challenges of building a railroad network in difficult country stand on a par with the financial market manipulation which usually dominates the 18xx games.
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