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Issue 97,  published February 2022


1 From the Editor

2 News from the line

6 Public Relations Notes

7 Indian narrow-gauge news

8 Education Group

9 Roundhouse Engineering

10 Statfold Barn (an event NOT to miss)

11 Railway connections 1 (The Flynn family)

20 Railway connections 2 (Augustus Wright)

23 Life beyond the railway

25 The DHRS Photo Archive (update)

26 A Siliguri Town school?

28 DHR in the News 1914 (Accidents on the DHR)

29 DRCS

31 Manoj Biswakarma, DHR Steam Driver

31 Letters

31 Books


Issue 98, published May 2022

Issue 99, published August 2022

Issue 100, published November 2022

1    News from the line

         Cash v Conservation -The Challenge

3    More help needed for Statfold event in June!

         Advertising on Heritage Sites

         Anti-ride post at Darjeeling, Alterations at Darjeeling

7   News from the line 2

13 Public Relations Notes, ‘Mane’ Line Incident

        Safety Concerns, The Rail Bhavan DHR ‘B’ Class

        Indo-Bangladesh Transport Links

        Indian Railfans Club Annual Convention

15  Crossing the Panchai River

21  Allowing the DHR Pacifics into Siliguri

22  Panchanai as it was

25  A Close Relationship

28  Indian narrow-gauge news

         Matheran Hill Railway, Kangra Valley Railway

28  Football and the DHR

29  The beautiful Carey Siding

31  Books


1   From the Editor

2   The 2022 AGM

3   News from the line

       Improved Indo-Bangladesh Transport Links

       Wild Weather Hits Assam

       Cashless Catering

4   Public Relations Notes

5   Walking Darjeeling

6   Tindharia Shed in better days

7   DRM’s update (NFR Katihar)

9   Sweet Indian Steam 2022

15 Want to build a new one?

17 DRCS Report

18 A Report on Esho Siliguri

19 Postcards of the DHR

30 Ghumjeeling: model to film

30 Synopsis of the film

31 Never ending research – Thokar Siding update

32 Society Sales


1    From the Editor

2    From the Chairman

8    The magical Issue 44

11  News from the line

14  New-build ‘B’ Class proposal

15  Public Relations Notes

        A New Record for Freight

        Federation of Societies for Environmental           Protection

        A Triumph for Prabhakar’s ‘TIMBOOR
          on the Trail’ restaurant

15  Education Group

18  Fresh hope for the future

20  Visiting the DHR in 1981

30  Faces behind the DHR

30  It’s the question of coal!

31  Letters

32  Society Sales