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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 109, published February 2025
1 From the Editor
2 The Ghum Festival also celebrated 25 years of the
DHR’s World Heritage.
3 News from the line
6 Public Relations Notes
6 New Director DHR
6 Rewari Heritage Loco Shed
6 Rail Enthusiasts Society (India)
7 Christmas in Darjeeling
11 DHR reopens fully!
23 Locomotive status
24 A Belgian link to the DHR
25 Baby Sivok – Getting the dates right
28 The Baby Sivok story book
30 Indian narrow-gauge news
30 Kalka-Shimla Railway
30 Kangra Valley Railway
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
