Train in the Himalayas - India, circa 1885 Photographer:
Attributed to Johnston & Hofmann Ref:
SK07891-21
The train in this photograph, built between 1879 and 1881 by the Darjeeling Steam Tramway Company, traveled the 80 kilometers separating Siliguri from Darjeeling in a mere 5 hours and 45 minutes. The railway’s construction, spurred by the flourishing tea industry, required numerous feats of imagination by its engineers: for example, this picturesque loop at Tindharia. Today the line is inscribed in Unesco’s World Heritage List.
