Darjeeling Mail

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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 91, published August 2020

1 From the Editor; Statfold Barn

2 From the Chairman;

Covid-19: Help for Darjeeling

Annual General Meeting

3 News from the line 1;

Timekeeping;

Charters from NJP;

Sukna;

Gayabari station;

Sonada station;

Margaret’s Deck;

Locomotive watering facilities;

Batasia Loop;

Joy trains

7 News from the line 2

10 Up the Line to Darjeeling

11 Why they matter! (Coach Nos.147 and 152)

15 A DHR Driver’s Eye view

20 Darjeeling’s lost siding

23 Matheran, January 2020

25 DRCS report

27 The new Haldibari station

28 To Darjeeling in 1905

29 Some points among the notes:-

30 Letters

30 The Bracing Hill stations (1936 adverts)

32 Society Sales (full list)

Details of Back Issues 1 to 48 of The Darjeeling Mail
can be down loaded as a PDF file here.

Back Issues 49 to 52

Back Issues 53 to 56

Back Issues 57 to 60

For a sample copy of The Darjeeling Mail, our choice, depends on spare copies, £2.00 each
Plus postage free to UK addresses, £2.00 to Europe, £3.00 to the Rest of the World
Send a UK Cheque for £2.00 (UK postage rate) to:

DHRS Sales
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Boston
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Much of the content of Darjeeling Mail is timeless, plus the news pages relive the line’s history and development in recent years.

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