The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Society is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales, no. 7406570. Registered office: Lime Tree Lodge, Thorpe Road, Mattersley, Doncaster, DN10 5ED
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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 105, published February 2024
From the Editor
1 Education Group – the Joy Train and picnic
2 On the subject of funding – FOSEP
3 From the Chairman
4 Notes from your new Membership secretary
4 News from the line
6 Public Relations Notes
6 New Secretary and Chief Heritage Officer
6 Indian Rail Fans Convention
7 Conserving the DHR – What Next?
7 More Diesels
9 Conservation v. Commercialisation
13 Statfold and the 19B
16 The Gulma Junction project
20 From the Archive
21 Memories from 1981
26 Men at work
27 What Might Have Been?
28 Little Himalayan Railway
29 Indian narrow-gauge news
31 Letters
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
Single copies price £3.00 each
Pus postage; free to UK addresses, £2.00 to Europe, £3.00 to the Rest of the World
Please contact sales@dhrs.org for available issues before ordering.
Your Editor giving some embarrassingly passionate speeches!
Whilst in Darjeeling November 2016
