It's really amazing to see a freight train on the DHR route. Always wondered how would it be to see those tiny wagons, lying around station yards, to roll on the track. Never got to see that in person, but experienced it through this video today. Magnificent! Also, one train overtaking another one on this route is quite a rare view. This video is really an archive material. Loved it!
For those who don't know the guy on top of the boiler is breaking up large coal chunks so it's easier for the engine to "digest" the fuel, since larger chunks would probably take longer to burn and not making adequate heat to boil the water.
Great footage. And to think these old beauties have been doing what they were built to for more than a century. Visited Darjeeling a few years back just for this. The one that pulled our train was a 788 'Tusker'.
Wonderful video! Impressive to see those little trains tackle the very steep grades. I wonder how many times the train got stuck uphill in autumn season...
The valve gear is in desperate need of adjustment; notice the very irregular exhaust beats, that shows the steam admission is different for every stroke.
I wish india would establish a railway university that teaches engineers on proper maintenance of these locomotiveslike in Japan, Germany, UK etc. It is really tragic that with the numbers of engineers that India produces, it seems like nobody has bothered to look into this
Cute Train, Nostalgia is number one priority to keep these trains operating.old lady is fun to watch Hope passengers pay their due at least to keep its up going and on her feet all through the year.and pay the wags for all her adoring crew.I wonder sometime passengers and crew have to disembark and push her up to climb up hill.Engine piston stroke noise is really enjoyable ,some times it resembles heart beats of dying man while listening through stethoscope.This noise,the sirens and the lovely black,coal dust smoke raising in to the horizon makes it all the more attractive.I wish I am there in the train.
Hiring engineers with skills require higher salary and running this train system cost more money than it generates. If fares can be slightly increased and all the riders start paying than maintenance wont be an issue.
A steam locomotive being used for his or her original purpose in the 21st century is something very special, I'd go as far as saying it's more special than heritage railways.
Enjoyed the memories. When I first visited Darjeeling (1999) I wanted to catch the train from Siliguri but looked as though it hadn't run from there for a long time. Sadly it was more easy to get a jeep up there than try get the train. Glad they still have the capability to get all the way from Siliguri to Darjeeling. It did look like they had abandoned the lower parts of the track when I saw it. Great video.
Wow, what an amazing railway. Built in just two years between 1879 and 1881 yet it rises nearly 7000 feet. Probably couldn't be done today. Good job keeping it running. Here's a map of the route; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darjeeling_Himalayan_Railway#/media/File:DHR_Route_Map.jpg
I have visited it with my family when I was in class 3 ☺️❤️ it amazing place with amazing people and it's my favorite place I have ever visited ❤️❤️❤️!!!
Absolutely fantastic video. It is on my bucket list to travel on this railway one day. It might have been designated a 'freight' train but there are many people inside the cars. ;)
I'm confused here by the name freight train when the meaning is a train carrying goods that was travelling from Siliguri to Darjeeling. whereas the previous one showed a two bogies passenger train that was referred to as freight .
I rode the train from Siliguri to Darjeerling and back in 2000. I thought I was riding on one of the worlds last steam trains. Now in 2016 they're running steam hauled freight trains on the line? I thought the days of steam had finished? What's happened to dieselisation of the line - didn't work?
This railway is now a UNESCO protected site, so they cannot change much. They have quite a number of serviceable steam locomotives and a bit less of diesels (also serviceable). My video is about a very special train. Do not expect to see this every day.
We also have many steam trains such delhi-Farukhnagar steam special,Nilgiri Mountain railway also uses steam locos,and the Fairy Queen worlds oldest working steam train.
Locomotoras a vapor como esta, fue la primera vez que se podía mover cargas sin animales, a partir de 1830. Pero tenían muy bajo rendimiento térmico. Consumiendo una enorme cantidad de carbón, apenas puede tirar de tres pequeños vagones vacíos. En el minuto 11:40 la moderna diesel arrastra 12 largos coches sin esfuerzo visible. These wonderful steam locomotives were the first non-animal energies in transportation, starting in 1830. Romantic and beautiful time But in this case, we can see its low thermal performance. It can barely haul three nearly empty cars, consuming an enormous amount of coal. At 11:40 we can see the difference in thermal performance, with the diesel locomotive pulling 12 very large cars with no apparent effort.
No estoy exactamente de acuerdo. Estas locomotoras a vapor están perfectamente capaces tirar muchos más vagones. Pero entre Siliguri y Kurseong, la longitud de los trenes (y el numero de vagones) esta limitada por el diseño del ferrocarril. Y además, sobreviven solo cuatro vagones de mercaderías.
Respuesta a@@KochersbergTV . Eran bonitas y romanticas. Pero toda el agua transformada en vapor se iba por la chimenea perdiendo la mayor parte de la energia. En el caso que vemos, apenas el 3,7 a 4% era aprovechado como energia de movimiento. Las ultimas vaporeras avanzadas, tenian doble expansion, vapor seco recalentado y recuperador de calor en agua de alimentacion y llegaban a un aprovechamineto térmico del 7 al 7,5% contra el 35% de los motores diesel. La locomotora del video aun tiene distribicion plana.
Wonderfull film about a wonderfull railway, and you had the honors of the first train over the landslide repairs (altough it was not aproved for passenger trains yet, the train did carry some (illegal?) passengers). Waiting for my B class kit in scale O to drop on my doormat soon, this film gave a lot of inspiration for a layout!
Thank you for your nice comment. Indeed our freight train was the first one to pass the repaired section, but it was not carrying any passengers. On the one hand, that would have been against the rule and more importantly, on the other hand we were too keen on taking pictures and videos to ride the train in this particular moment.
Darjeeling is a place in West Bengal state of India which produces world's finest tea. It is very beautiful place and as per me little focus on cleaning and infrastructure to provide to boost the tourism.
Where time seems to stand still, - excellent video if I may say so. I always thought this was a 'rack & pinion' railway or am getting it mixed up with the one in the Nilgiri Hills. I don't quite see the point of hauling freight when the 'boxcars' appeared empty, - was this a 'trial' run, or put on specially for you. I thought the 'B' class had been disposed of, as a certain coal mine has 4 of them, albeit only 1 is in 'running condition'
The Darjeeling has never used rack and pinions. Instead they have several switch-backs and loops that help keep reasonable gradients. As for the B class, there is still a sizable amount of them on the railway and they are used on service trains every day.
this line was built primarily to bring down tea to the main line of NJP station and it also provided the British officials a pass time out of the hot plains to the cool hills of Darjeeling
@Isochest -- You're definitely guessing in the right direction. But I doubt if this is used for tea anymore - that's what the British originally built this for. I believe the freight cars are used by the railways to transport their own goods. Road seems to be the preferred medium of transportation of goods these days in these hilly areas. This train is used more by local daily commuters and tourists rather than for freight.
is that steam loco still running? other footage looks it replaced to diesel loco or operating both in parallel. btw, really attractive and wanna be there in the future.
I was afraid they had stopped using steam on the Darjeeling railway. Those little "teakettle" engines are a part of history that make the great Himalayan Railway what it is for the world to see!
Thank you for your suggestion. I'll try to take this into account in the next video. As for uneven puffing, it is a problem linked with poor maintenance of the engine.
At the beginning this narrow gauge train crosses a standard or wide gauge track. Anyone know the track gauges? What an interesting video. I think traveling to India could be very interesting.
Narrow gauge looks to be about 2 foot. There is a narrow gauge operation near the town of Heyfield, Victoria Australia that my dads brother in law has been involved in rebuilding. It’s not the Puffing Billy. I’ll have to look it up and reply. I saw the area in 1985 and dreamed of it being rebuilt into the mining town it went into.
great quality of filming! 👍 well done💯😎🤩✔️this train should be preserved and be well maintained, because it is a good tourism attraction althou its existence will be outshine by automobiles. the local government should keep this running and someway it can be replaced by diesel locos. it is a heritage of human kind. but really need a good attention. there were/ are also some of like those here in my country but it is only for sugar cane transport. most of them now are replaced by trucks😫 from another similar video about DHR, it is said that the local.government will close this operation. CMIIW.
You can feel the life,the vibrancy from these people ,the surroundings,they are alive, its completely different from the crushed broken brainwashed west,these wonderful videos capture everything, absolutely brilliant,
It’s supposed to mean these people live by hard work and use some common sense. None of the nanny state health and safety culture. Study the loco; there are two blokes hanging off the front dropping sand by hand to prevent wheelslip. One slip and the bloke is under the wheels or falls down a rock cliff. Try writing a risk assessment for that? Basically this is a way of life hardly anybody in the U.K. could hack. Now I’m quite sure I’d not want such a risky way to earn a few rupees. But those guys did their job. This is as primitive way a way to make a railway run as I’ve ever seen; incredible. Victorian way. Those unguarded, unmanned, unsignalled level crossings. Hazardous much? This seems astonishingly risky to me. So how does this work? Clearly the staff are full of skill, they can think through risky jobs and perform them. They aren’t thinking of suing their employer for putting them at risk, or not providing proper PPE, or for making them write down everything they do to defend their actions in case of a problem occurring. So fear of the threat of disciplinary action for not writing everything down isn’t happening here. The absolute need to follow procedure as it is written isn’t happening. Now there is merit to some of our way of doing it. But it carries a FEAR the whole damn time. These people take pride in the job instead. This is how it should be. That’s why they aren’t broken and we are. Understand yet?
DHR Toy Train, it is the integral part of our Gorkha culture of Darjeeling but alas not a single Gorkha passenger is seen traveling by this train....Is it due the expensive fares ?
Yes, but please appreciate that those locomotives are not precious museum items, but real things doing a real job. And whatever the sound, they do it reliably.
@@KochersbergTV But still, off timed pistons are actually less reliable. Also, if you visit any country where they didn't place much money into the maintenance of a steam locomotive (South Africa or China)they would almost always get the fundamentals correct. This is because it actually makes the ride worse and power (as well as tractive effort) inconsistent which is needed for the routes the Darjeeling B class run on.
The total amount is quite small, and Darjeeling is in a very high rainfall area, so the sulphur dioxide gets washed out of the air and foliage really quickly.
it is harmful anyway. coal is dangerous. many of power plants using coal will have bad effects on ppl living on the surrounding. because of the small debris coming out from the power plant's exhaust. it can cause respiratory illness, cancer, giving birth failure etc. as a fossil fuel. coal should be replaced with greener source(wind, water, solar) but coal is also cheap, that's why it is also still mainly used.
It could use a good washing. That way, we'll see this machine in all its intended splendor. Also, in spite of the risks, it's nice seeing the locomotive and pedestrians coexist like this.
It's really amazing to see a freight train on the DHR route. Always wondered how would it be to see those tiny wagons, lying around station yards, to roll on the track. Never got to see that in person, but experienced it through this video today. Magnificent! Also, one train overtaking another one on this route is quite a rare view. This video is really an archive material. Loved it!
For those who don't know the guy on top of the boiler is breaking up large coal chunks so it's easier for the engine to "digest" the fuel, since larger chunks would probably take longer to burn and not making adequate heat to boil the water.
Wonderful video! Now I have another place on Planet Earth I need to visit!!
No words to describe.... igniting my childhood memories of mid 80's
Great footage of the lovely class Bs! I didn't know they ran these locomotives on freight still. I love their whistles too.
Thank you so much sir. You made a great video of our Country's pride Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
No words to describe seriously!!! igniting my memories from February 2022...
What a beautiful little train. So ancient.
Great footage. And to think these old beauties have been doing what they were built to for more than a century. Visited Darjeeling a few years back just for this. The one that pulled our train was a 788 'Tusker'.
Wonderful video! Impressive to see those little trains tackle the very steep grades. I wonder how many times the train got stuck uphill in autumn season...
Fascinating scenery and excellent camera angles.....terrific subject matter throughout and great work all around. I just added my subscription.
The valve gear is in desperate need of adjustment; notice the very irregular exhaust beats, that shows the steam admission is different for every stroke.
I wish india would establish a railway university that teaches engineers on proper maintenance of these locomotiveslike in Japan, Germany, UK etc. It is really tragic that with the numbers of engineers that India produces, it seems like nobody has bothered to look into this
Cute Train, Nostalgia is number one priority to keep these trains operating.old lady is fun to watch Hope passengers pay their due at least to keep its up going and on her feet all through the year.and pay the wags for all her adoring crew.I wonder sometime passengers and crew have to disembark and push her up to climb up hill.Engine piston stroke noise is really enjoyable ,some times it resembles heart beats of dying man while listening through stethoscope.This noise,the sirens and the lovely black,coal dust smoke raising in to the horizon makes it all the more attractive.I wish I am there in the train.
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Hiring engineers with skills require higher salary and running this train system cost more money than it generates. If fares can be slightly increased and all the riders start paying than maintenance wont be an issue.
I guess the engineers must be thinking: "it moves, therefore there is no problem"
Is it me or is it really cool that these little saddle tanks are still being used for proper purposes 🙂
A steam locomotive being used for his or her original purpose in the 21st century is something very special, I'd go as far as saying it's more special than heritage railways.
Enjoyed the memories. When I first visited Darjeeling (1999) I wanted to catch the train from Siliguri but looked as though it hadn't run from there for a long time. Sadly it was more easy to get a jeep up there than try get the train. Glad they still have the capability to get all the way from Siliguri to Darjeeling. It did look like they had abandoned the lower parts of the track when I saw it. Great video.
what a lovely railway and superb film and edit you have done.
What great fun that would have been. I would have loved, make that LOVED such a magnificent journey! Thank you for letting us see.
ダージリンヒマラヤ鉄道🚃と一緒に、エンフィールドに乗って旅してました。最高の旅でした♪😊
Brilliant video! Really enjoyed this! I'd love to visit the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway one day!
Wow, what an amazing railway. Built in just two years between 1879 and 1881 yet it rises nearly 7000 feet. Probably couldn't be done today. Good job keeping it running.
Here's a map of the route; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darjeeling_Himalayan_Railway#/media/File:DHR_Route_Map.jpg
It sounds like the valves are set wrong on the tank engine.
alot of things are going to be wrong, look at it!
For a minute I thought, wait, is that little thing a compound engine?
Love from Darjeeling my hometown
I have visited it with my family when I was in class 3 ☺️❤️ it amazing place with amazing people and it's my favorite place I have ever visited ❤️❤️❤️!!!
Delightful trip! Congratulations.
Thanks - a great video and a great tour company!
Beautiful train route. Excellent vediography.
Awesome! ❤️ Being in India I haven't seen all these beauty.
You should have shown Dilaram , Tung , and Jorepokhari stations along the route. Their specific scenery shows the abrupt change in terrain .
Thank you for your suggestion. Next time...
Loved it!! Beautiful moments and shot very well too.
Very beautiful train! I have also one video of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. Thank you for your video! Best Regards from Germany, Railherbie
A very similar whistle to the Day Out With Thomas engines here in the US...
What a beautiful railway!
ugh
Absolutely fantastic video.
It is on my bucket list to travel on this railway one day.
It might have been designated a 'freight' train but there are many people inside the cars. ;)
excellent videos !
Loved watching steam locos in action.
I got a real kick out of the "Sander" on this loco hahah
Would like to have seen notation on the screen of the elevation above sea level of some of the stations, or other locations.
Good suggestion. I will think of it next time...if there is one.
I'm confused here by the name freight train when the meaning is a train carrying goods that was travelling from Siliguri to Darjeeling. whereas the previous one showed a two bogies passenger train that was referred to as freight .
Obviously you did not watch the video long enough!
Excellent KochersbergTV !!! Thank you for this adorable video.
Great work....Epic images....Big like & subscribe from Romania....Thumbs up!!!
Pleasant trip and lovely people!
Mountains how much high
Locomotives can climb.
Bravo!
This is a train where I almost wouldn't be angry if I got hit by it because it's so adorable.
I rode the train from Siliguri to Darjeerling and back in 2000. I thought I was riding on one of the worlds last steam trains. Now in 2016 they're running steam hauled freight trains on the line? I thought the days of steam had finished? What's happened to dieselisation of the line - didn't work?
This railway is now a UNESCO protected site, so they cannot change much. They have quite a number of serviceable steam locomotives and a bit less of diesels (also serviceable). My video is about a very special train. Do not expect to see this every day.
We also have many steam trains such delhi-Farukhnagar steam special,Nilgiri Mountain railway also uses steam locos,and the Fairy Queen worlds oldest working steam train.
Superb Filming , Thank you
Locomotoras a vapor como esta, fue la primera vez que se podía mover cargas sin animales, a partir de 1830. Pero tenían muy bajo rendimiento térmico. Consumiendo una enorme cantidad de carbón, apenas puede tirar de tres pequeños vagones vacíos.
En el minuto 11:40 la moderna diesel arrastra 12 largos coches sin esfuerzo visible.
These wonderful steam locomotives were the first non-animal energies in transportation, starting in 1830. Romantic and beautiful time
But in this case, we can see its low thermal performance. It can barely haul three nearly empty cars, consuming an enormous amount of coal.
At 11:40 we can see the difference in thermal performance, with the diesel locomotive pulling 12 very large cars with no apparent effort.
No estoy exactamente de acuerdo. Estas locomotoras a vapor están perfectamente capaces tirar muchos más vagones. Pero entre Siliguri y Kurseong, la longitud de los trenes (y el numero de vagones) esta limitada por el diseño del ferrocarril. Y además, sobreviven solo cuatro vagones de mercaderías.
Respuesta a@@KochersbergTV . Eran bonitas y romanticas. Pero toda el agua transformada en vapor se iba por la chimenea perdiendo la mayor parte de la energia. En el caso que vemos, apenas el 3,7 a 4% era aprovechado como energia de movimiento. Las ultimas vaporeras avanzadas, tenian doble expansion, vapor seco recalentado y recuperador de calor en agua de alimentacion y llegaban a un aprovechamineto térmico del 7 al 7,5% contra el 35% de los motores diesel. La locomotora del video aun tiene distribicion plana.
En cuanto al argumenta termodinámica, estoy totalmente de acuerdo con usted. Es la razón por la que usé de "exactamente" en my comentario.
Wonderfull film about a wonderfull railway, and you had the honors of the first train over the landslide repairs (altough it was not aproved for passenger trains yet, the train did carry some (illegal?) passengers).
Waiting for my B class kit in scale O to drop on my doormat soon, this film gave a lot of inspiration for a layout!
Thank you for your nice comment. Indeed our freight train was the first one to pass the repaired section, but it was not carrying any passengers. On the one hand, that would have been against the rule and more importantly, on the other hand we were too keen on taking pictures and videos to ride the train in this particular moment.
What is the guage on that line. Seems terribly narrow.
2 foot gauge, i.e. about 600 mm.
Darjeeling is a place in West Bengal state of India which produces world's finest tea. It is very beautiful place and as per me little focus on cleaning and infrastructure to provide to boost the tourism.
Kangchenjunga mountain ( Third highest mountain in the world 8,586 m)
28:15
Where time seems to stand still, - excellent video if I may say so. I always thought this was a 'rack & pinion' railway or am getting it mixed up with the one in the Nilgiri Hills. I don't quite see the point of hauling freight when the 'boxcars' appeared empty, - was this a 'trial' run, or put on specially for you. I thought the 'B' class had been disposed of, as a certain coal mine has 4 of them, albeit only 1 is in 'running condition'
The Darjeeling has never used rack and pinions. Instead they have several switch-backs and loops that help keep reasonable gradients. As for the B class, there is still a sizable amount of them on the railway and they are used on service trains every day.
Nostálgicos recuerdos traen estos trenes, en mi país es raro viajar en tren... saludos, lindas imágenes, desde Stgo de Chile.
I live in Siliguri and we call it Toy Train. It's under UNESCO's World Heritage Site. Thanks for the video.
Weiter so, ich sehe es immer wieder gerne, Deine "reportagen"
Quite an involved process climbing the mountain in a zig zag slowly but surely getting highly, India has doing this for a very very long time!
A very enjoyable video, thanks 🇨🇦
can't anybody upload hdvideo for such wonderful journey?
Not sure to understand the question. This is a HD video. Well actually a 2.5 K one.
Very Nice shots and great views .... wish i was there too experience this line as well !!
Garratt's were made in England for Australia, S Africa and elsewhere.
Did that get monumentally bigger
What cargo did this train carry? Perhaps tea?
this line was built primarily to bring down tea to the main line of NJP station and it also provided the British officials a pass time out of the hot plains to the cool hills of Darjeeling
@Isochest -- You're definitely guessing in the right direction. But I doubt if this is used for tea anymore - that's what the British originally built this for. I believe the freight cars are used by the railways to transport their own goods. Road seems to be the preferred medium of transportation of goods these days in these hilly areas. This train is used more by local daily commuters and tourists rather than for freight.
Isochest we.
tea downhill provisions and Whisky uphill
is that steam loco still running? other footage looks it replaced to diesel loco or operating both in parallel.
btw, really attractive and wanna be there in the future.
There are both diesel and steam trains.
Great work..m from Siliguri....
Guau! , éstos trencitos si que tienen que trabajar, hermoso vídeo gracias.
Cool train video, nice stuff
Those steam tank engines look fun to operate on. They speed up fast.
I was afraid they had stopped using steam on the Darjeeling railway. Those little
"teakettle" engines are a part of history that make the great Himalayan Railway
what it is for the world to see!
Most beautiful video..
Thanks..
Danke KochersbergTV.
Nice video! Thank you for sharing this. 5:40 Difficult to read. Do over. Make bigger.
Why is puffing not even?
Thank you for your suggestion. I'll try to take this into account in the next video. As for uneven puffing, it is a problem linked with poor maintenance of the engine.
What freight is this train 🚂 pulling?
Nothing. It was a charter for photographers. But the freight used to be tea, a very famous one.
At the beginning this narrow gauge train crosses a standard or wide gauge track. Anyone know the track gauges? What an interesting video. I think traveling to India could be very interesting.
The broad gauge is 5 foot 6, i.e. 1.676 m. Traveling in India is indeed very interesting!
Narrow gauge looks to be about 2 foot. There is a narrow gauge operation near the town of Heyfield, Victoria Australia that my dads brother in law has been involved in rebuilding. It’s not the Puffing Billy. I’ll have to look it up and reply. I saw the area in 1985 and dreamed of it being rebuilt into the mining town it went into.
Yes, it is a 2 foot gauge.
@@MustangsTrainsMowers It is called broad Guage.
great quality of filming! 👍 well done💯😎🤩✔️this train should be preserved and be well maintained, because it is a good tourism attraction althou its existence will be outshine by automobiles. the local government should keep this running and someway it can be replaced by diesel locos. it is a heritage of human kind. but really need a good attention.
there were/ are also some of like those here in my country but it is only for sugar cane transport. most of them now are replaced by trucks😫
from another similar video about DHR, it is said that the local.government will close this operation. CMIIW.
They'll never planned to close this operation because its a UNESCO World Heritage.
You can feel the life,the vibrancy from these people ,the surroundings,they are alive, its completely different from the crushed broken brainwashed west,these wonderful videos capture everything, absolutely brilliant,
broken, brainwashed? what's that supposed to mean? lol
It’s supposed to mean these people live by hard work and use some common sense. None of the nanny state health and safety culture. Study the loco; there are two blokes hanging off the front dropping sand by hand to prevent wheelslip. One slip and the bloke is under the wheels or falls down a rock cliff. Try writing a risk assessment for that? Basically this is a way of life hardly anybody in the U.K. could hack. Now I’m quite sure I’d not want such a risky way to earn a few rupees. But those guys did their job. This is as primitive way a way to make a railway run as I’ve ever seen; incredible. Victorian way. Those unguarded, unmanned, unsignalled level crossings. Hazardous much? This seems astonishingly risky to me. So how does this work? Clearly the staff are full of skill, they can think through risky jobs and perform them. They aren’t thinking of suing their employer for putting them at risk, or not providing proper PPE, or for making them write down everything they do to defend their actions in case of a problem occurring. So fear of the threat of disciplinary action for not writing everything down isn’t happening here. The absolute need to follow procedure as it is written isn’t happening. Now there is merit to some of our way of doing it. But it carries a FEAR the whole damn time. These people take pride in the job instead. This is how it should be. That’s why they aren’t broken and we are. Understand yet?
I love DHR very much. SCRoy from Bangladesh.
Nice little train! 👍😁
美丽的地方，古老的火车！在印度什么地方？
The train is in Darjeeling, in the state of West Bengal, India.
@@KochersbergTV TQ，BRO。
What a great film. loved every minute of that.
Hey I found Thomas But where is other friends.
Sehr schöne Dokumentation unserer Reise, viele Grüße an Dich, Jan
Danke schön, Jan. Nilgiri kommt schon. Bis nächsten Mahl.
glad to see there is still steam, although those leaks are painful to look at :
Thanks for the nice movie.
very cool - thanks for sharing
Nice catch! does the DHR even own a diesel locomotive?
Yes, they do, but use mostly steam.
Yes it have five diesel locomotives
Is Norh Bengal cold?
used to be , global warming has taken a toll on the climate now
great film!
what camera did you use?
Filmed with a Sony Z100 in 4K 25p
Truly a charming bit of railfanning.
That was very calming to watch....
This is just lovely.
They also use diesel locomotives in Darjeeling Railway.
DHR Toy Train, it is the integral part of our Gorkha culture of Darjeeling but alas not a single Gorkha passenger is seen traveling by this train....Is it due the expensive fares ?
that whistle !! ....... priceless !
Great film, big complments, thank you
Incredible India ❤️😍 GREAT BHARTIYA RAILWAY'S 🔥
Pity the timing is off. Listen to the piston strokes.
Yes, but please appreciate that those locomotives are not precious museum items, but real things doing a real job. And whatever the sound, they do it reliably.
@@KochersbergTV I get and fully understand that. That is why I said it is a pity.
@@KochersbergTV But still, off timed pistons are actually less reliable. Also, if you visit any country where they didn't place much money into the maintenance of a steam locomotive (South Africa or China)they would almost always get the fundamentals correct. This is because it actually makes the ride worse and power (as well as tractive effort) inconsistent which is needed for the routes the Darjeeling B class run on.
New Jalpaiguri To Darjeeling 84 Km long DHR rail
looking beautiful, but I always think abt harmful effect of this heavy smoke.
Design O World its deceiving, at least half that is steam
The total amount is quite small, and Darjeeling is in a very high rainfall area, so the sulphur dioxide gets washed out of the air and foliage really quickly.
it is harmful anyway. coal is dangerous. many of power plants using coal will have bad effects on ppl living on the surrounding. because of the small debris coming out from the power plant's exhaust. it can cause respiratory illness, cancer, giving birth failure etc.
as a fossil fuel. coal should be replaced with greener source(wind, water, solar) but coal is also cheap, that's why it is also still mainly used.
matheran mumbai,s india also make vedio
It could use a good washing. That way, we'll see this machine in all its intended splendor. Also, in spite of the risks, it's nice seeing the locomotive and pedestrians coexist like this.
Danke schön, Wunderbares Video. Die Lokomotive B01 Tindharia arbeitet, ist das eine neue Lokomotive? Oder ist es aus alten Teilen gemacht?
Grüße
Mik
Tut mir Leid, aber ich habe keine Ahnung.
one of the finest footages of Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
They could have easily used diesel loco for freight. Why steam ?? Any reason
Why not steam?
KochersbergTV because these steam engines are very precious, it should only be used by tourist trains rather than putting them on freight
Very nice video!
piękne, dzielne, pracowite. W paszporcie powinny mieć : Imię - Kolejka, Nazwisko- Pociąg.
The train runs with two cars. But the train has six workers. Ha ha ha.
tow mans to drive a train, another man to load coal, another man to swing the flag, and the other two mans to put sand on the rails
The really fascinating thing on this train after all others fascinating things, is that guy sitting on the top of coal STILL HAVE A WHITE CAP!!! :-D