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Halfway to Heaven by Terry Martin #1,617 of 2,000 w/ dust jacket
Halfway to Heaven by Terry Martin #1,617 of 2,000
Halfway to Heaven
Darjeeling and Its Remarkable Railway
Terry Martin
Hard Cover W/Dust Jacket and plastic over coat
331 Pages
Copyright 2000
Sticker on first page This edition is limited to 2000 copies of which this is #1617
Contents
Acknowledgements5
Foreword6
Introduction7
By Way of Explanation10
Chapter 1 - Strangers in a Strange Land13
Chapter 2 - The Making of the Tramway25
Chapter 3 - Getting Down to Business41
Chapter 4 - Image and Reality 61
Chapter 5 - The Spectre of Competition75
Chapter 6 - Letting go of the Reins97
Chapter 7 - Kishenganj and the Teesta Valley115
Chapter 8 - Halfway to Heaven137
Chapter 9 - Locomotives of the DHR187
Chapter 10 - Rolling Stock of the DHR241
Chapter 11 - Operation & Practice 271
The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Society289
Bibliography290
Appendix 1- The Viceroy's Visit 291
Appendix 2 - The Opening Ceremonies292
Appendix 3 - Carey's report to the I.C.E. 298
Appendix 4 - Sharp Stuart & Co. - `A' Class Specification 305
Appendix 5 - Beyer-Garratt Specification & Wakefield Report309
Appendix 6 - Annual Returns of the DHR310
Appendix 7 - Annual Returns of the DHR Extensions312
Appendix 8 - Locomotive Stock List314
Appendix 9 - Locomotive & Rolling Stock Drawings316
Index328
The Story of One of the Most Remarkable Railways in the World.
India is everything you want or not want it Ito be! It is a land of palaces and poverty, of the enlightened and the pedantic, it embraces the exotic and the mundane. It has
culture of dynamic enterprise and of countless beliefs, where one-sixth of mankind lives on one-fortieth of its surface, ranging from the highest mountains in the World to one of the largest deserts. It is a land of extremes.
The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway bears witness to this, and captures the imagination of all who take the train that works its way from the cauterising heat of the plains into the shadow of Kanchenjunga, the third highest mountain on Earth.
One can only speculate whether it was naivety or the single minded belief that a railway to Darjeeling should have been built in the first place. No proper survey had been made prior to the laying of the track, which followed a road originally designed for animals to haul carts to Darjeeling, and nobody was surprised when the train fell off the rails five times on opening day!
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