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The Darjeeling Mail
Our quarterly magazine packed with a wide variety of subject matter regarding the line, including the latest news. Articles will cover everything from the lines history to tips on travel, both to it and on it; everything, in fact from construction histories to present workings, complemented by drawings and photographs.
In the current issue :- Issue 114, published May 2026
1 From the Editor
2 From the Chairman
2 Engineering
4 DHRS–the Way Ahead?
5 News from the line
6 Public Relations Notes
7 On Literary Lines
8 Indian Railways has a new logo
8 Tempting the Travel Trade
9 Director’s Update
11 It was clear that all was not well
19 Viewing 19B’s new boiler at Boston Lodge
22 Trans India Rail
23 Mr Cresswell’s Motor Car
25 Progress with 19B
26 A look at Kolkata Trams
28 DRCS and Val Mead
29 Peter Barnes
30 Before and After by David Charlesworth
32 DHRS Sales
Details of Issues 1 to 48 of The Darjeeling Mail
can be down loaded as a PDF file here.
Much of the content of Darjeeling Mail is timeless, plus the news pages relive the line’s history and development in recent years.
Individual back copies are available via our Internet web shop
Please contact sales@dhrs.org for available issues before ordering.
Your Editor giving some embarrassingly passionate speeches!
Whilst in Darjeeling November 2016
