Darjeeling

A 19^th century engineering feat, this 88 km long narrow gauge steam-railway was constructed between 1879 and 1881 ands was responsible for the development of cc as a hill station. It remains the best way to seethe flora & fauna of the Darjeeling hills. UNESCO has granted it World Heritage status. See the roof of the world, travel by the Worlds' most famous narrow gauge railway to see:

DARJEELING, the queen of the Hill Stations, where the champagne of Tea is grown.
KANCHENJUNGA, the third highest mountain in the world- crowning the horizon of Darjeeling.
HIMALAYAN SUNRISE, see the magnificent sunrise over the Himalayas from Tiger Hill.

THE RAILWAY

The spectacular little line was built in 1879 in order to overcome the formidable journey by the Cart Road from Siliguri to Darjeeling. Franklin Prestige of the Eastern Bengal Railway formed the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Company to build the 2 foot gauge line which attains a height of 7407 feet at Ghoom from only 500 feet above sea level at Siliguri. The little line attains is height by a complicated series of such reversing stations and spiraling loops, zigzagging
across the road whilst the plains and river stretch out beneath your feet. The journey culminates in the famous Batasia Loop with the panorama of
Darjeeling and Kanchenjunga, the world's third highest mountain, before you. The toy trains themselves are Victorian gems. Steam hauled locomotives of the B Class, designed and built form 1889, the originals by Sharp Stewart of Glasgow, still ply their way up the mountains.