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Issue 85,  published February 2019

1 From the Editor

3 Delhi, Siliguri and Darjeeling

The National Rail Museum and the Indian Steam

Railway Society Congress

Schools Programme and DHR Preservation Society

FOSEP

The UNESCO DHR Workshop programme

Darjeeling Railway Community Support (DRCS) and

Rohini School

Kiddie First School, Sukna

Walking the line from NJP to Siliguri Town

Siliguri Town old station

Bidhan Road – route of the Teesta Valley branch

Walking the sidings, loops and reveses

The Mileposts

The printing works at Kurseong

Margarets Deck – near Tung Station

A flying visit to Tindharia loco shed and Works

The future

27 Public Relations Notes

DHR evening steam-hauled service

Indian Railways – Senior Appointments

Indias Longest Road/Rail Bridge

Building barriers to save lives

Metre-gauge Revival

Nilgiri News

Matheran Line

Kalka-Shimla News

Indian Narrow-gauge News

29 Society Events

30 The DHR CCMP Story so far

32 A Rare DHR Timepiece

32 Books

32 Website

Issue 86, published May 2019

Issue 87, published August 2019

Issue 88, published November 2019


 1   From the Editor

 2   From the Chairman

 3   News from the line

 3   DHR News

       A New Home for B787

       On Pilot Duty

       Financial Progress

 6   Public Relations Notes

       IR Appointment - Executive Director, Heritage

       Metre-gauge Revival at Siliguri

 7   Indian narrow-gauge

 9   The line is really struggling!

 15  Up the line to Darjeeling – Part 26

 23  Five ages of Indian Rollers

 29  Faces behind the DHR

 29  Society Events

 29  Shows and Events

 30  Letters

 31  Books

 32  Website



 1    From the Editor

  2    UNESCO intervenes over DHR Conservation Issues

  2    UNESCO’s Action

  2    The Indian Railways’ Position

  3    The DHRS Viewpoint

  3    News from the line

  3    DHR News

  4    A revised Joy Train timetable

  4    DHRS Education Group

  5    Public Relations Notes

  5    Indian Steam Railway Society

  5    Wires to New Jalpaiguri

  6    Doing the research!

  9    Up the line to Darjeeling

 24   The UNESCO/Indian Railways Workshops 8-18 May 2019

 28   The Haldibari link

 30   Society Events

 30   Shows and Events

 31   DHRS on-line

 31   The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Society’s website is www.dhrs.org

 31   The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Society’s Facebook page

 32   Castleton and Margaret’s Hope Tea Estates
   by Joya Allay, hospitality manager

 32   Letters

 32   Website




 1    From the Editor

  2    From the Chairman

  2    Launceston Steam Railway

  7    Rajen Bali - An Appreciation

  7    News from the line

  7    Phone Fatality

  8    No Steam at Darjeeling

  8    DHR Web Site

  11  Education Group

  11  Public Relations Notes

  11  Indian Steam Railway Society

  11  Slow Train to Sikkim

  12  Indian Rail Fan Club (IRFCA)

  12  Privatisation Moves

  13  Talking in Toky0

  13  Indian narrow-gauge news

  14  Shri Tapan Malakar

  15 A tourist on the DHR

  25  Building the Society archive

  29  Kurseong Station in 4mm

  31  BFI Player - the DHR in film archives

  32 Letters