Darjeeling railway station

Darjeeling Himalayan Railway: Highest Railway Station in Asia Last Updated -- March 2nd, 2022 Darjeeling is a small town located in West Bengal in the foothills of the Himalayas noted for its tea industry. It has the world's third-highest mountain (Kangchenjunga) and is popular worldwide for its scenic beauty. The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) is a narrow-gauge mountain railway, popular as a toy train. It has been marked on the world heritage list by UNESCO. People from all over the world visit Darjeeling to witness its natural beauty. So, make your adventure more organised with the below-jotted DHR details. Table of contents • • • • • • • History of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (Toy Train) Influenced by British rule, 1828 witnessed the first settlement in Darjeeling. However, in 1835, the city was separated from Sikkim to build a sanatorium for different patients who were former servants of the East India Company. With only a monastery, the observatory hill in Darjeeling, then, only had 20 huts and a population of 100. After 39 years of the development initiation of Darjeeling town, Franklin Prestige, an agent of the Eastern Bengal Railway, saw prospects of a rail link between the hills and plains to augment transport facilities and economic activities, mainly tea exports. Thereafter, he submitted the plan for the two feet railway line construction between Siliguri and Darjeeling. The scheme was sanctioned on 8 April 1879, culminating in the establishment of the ...

Mountain Railways of India This site includes three railways. The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway was the first, and is still the most outstanding, example of a hill passenger railway. Opened in 1881, its design applies bold and ingenious engineering solutions to the problem of establishing an effective rail link across a mountainous terrain of great beauty. The construction of the Nilgiri Mountain Railway, a 46-km long metre-gauge single-track railway in Tamil Nadu State was first proposed in 1854, but due to the difficulty of the mountainous location the work only started in 1891 and was completed in 1908. This railway, scaling an elevation of 326 m to 2,203 m, represented the latest technology of the time. The Kalka Shimla Railway, a 96-km long, single track working rail link built in the mid-19th century to provide a service to the highland town of Shimla is emblematic of the technical and material efforts to disenclave mountain populations through the railway. All three railways are still fully operational. Description is available under license Chemins de fer de montagne en Inde Ce site comprend trois liaisons ferroviaires. Le premier, et jusqu’à présent le plus exceptionnel exemple de chemin de fer de montagne pour passagers, est le Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. Inauguré en 1881, sa construction a nécessité des solutions ingénieuses et audacieuses pour résoudre les problèmes liés à l’établissement d’une ligne ferroviaire à travers un terrain montagneux d’une grande bea...