This video shows steam hauled passenger and freight trains along the whole line of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. That is to say from Siliguri to Darjeeling.
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.
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 ❤️❤️❤️!!!
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.
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
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.
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'.
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?
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.
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 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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That poor little steamer needs some TLC...it's stuttering... Awesome video though. We need more steam mainline power in the US. *Edit:* Well...it's stuttering at low speed, anyways.
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 .
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.
I watched a very interesting documentary about the "toy" trains of India, made by the BBC. Really very good, and concentrating on the real people working on these railways. Is it what you are referring to?
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 ?
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.
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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!
No words to describe.... igniting my childhood memories of mid 80's
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.
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 ❤️❤️❤️!!!
No words to describe seriously!!! igniting my memories from February 2022...
Wonderful video! Now I have another place on Planet Earth I need to visit!!
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.
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
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.
This is a train where I almost wouldn't be angry if I got hit by it because it's so adorable.
Great footage of the lovely class Bs! I didn't know they ran these locomotives on freight still. I love their whistles too.
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'.
What a beautiful little train. So ancient.
what a lovely railway and superb film and edit you have done.
Thank you so much sir. You made a great video of our Country's pride Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
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?
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♪😊
excellent videos !
Loved watching steam locos in action.
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.
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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"
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. ;)
What great fun that would have been. I would have loved, make that LOVED such a magnificent journey! Thank you for letting us see.
Fascinating scenery and excellent camera angles.....terrific subject matter throughout and great work all around. I just added my subscription.
I live in Siliguri and we call it Toy Train. It's under UNESCO's World Heritage Site. Thanks for the video.
Awesome! ❤️ Being in India I haven't seen all these beauty.
Great work....Epic images....Big like & subscribe from Romania....Thumbs up!!!
I got a real kick out of the "Sander" on this loco hahah
Nostálgicos recuerdos traen estos trenes, en mi país es raro viajar en tren... saludos, lindas imágenes, desde Stgo de Chile.
A very similar whistle to the Day Out With Thomas engines here in the US...
What a beautiful railway!
ugh
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!
Thanks - a great video and a great tour company!
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.
Delightful trip! Congratulations.
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.
I love DHR very much. SCRoy from Bangladesh.
Brilliant video! Really enjoyed this! I'd love to visit the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway one day!
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.
Pleasant trip and lovely people!
Mountains how much high
Locomotives can climb.
Bravo!
very cool - thanks for sharing
Very beautiful train! I have also one video of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. Thank you for your video! Best Regards from Germany, Railherbie
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...
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!
Beautiful train route. Excellent vediography.
Loved it!! Beautiful moments and shot very well too.
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
Those steam tank engines look fun to operate on. They speed up fast.
Incredible India ❤️😍 GREAT BHARTIYA RAILWAY'S 🔥
This is just lovely.
Music to my ears 👂
Superb Filming , Thank you
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
Excellent KochersbergTV !!! Thank you for this adorable video.
Guau! , éstos trencitos si que tienen que trabajar, hermoso vídeo gracias.
Danke KochersbergTV.
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.
Garratt's were made in England for Australia, S Africa and elsewhere.
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?
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.
A very enjoyable video, thanks 🇨🇦
Train of world heritage and India's proud
What a great film. loved every minute of that.
That poor little steamer needs some TLC...it's stuttering...
Awesome video though. We need more steam mainline power in the US.
*Edit:* Well...it's stuttering at low speed, anyways.
Beautiful 😍
I love the manual sand button 😂 just send the conductor to sand the tracks lol
Very Nice shots and great views .... wish i was there too experience this line as well !!
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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!
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.
Love my hometown Darjeeling
Thanks for the nice movie.
Most beautiful video..
Thanks..
In India the train is part of the community which I think is wonderful
Beautiful!
Truly a charming bit of railfanning.
Most lovely railway.
I love my India my Indian beauty
Anybody here watching Indian hill railways? It’s a programme about the life of the people working at this railway!
I watched a very interesting documentary about the "toy" trains of India, made by the BBC. Really very good, and concentrating on the real people working on these railways. Is it what you are referring to?
Nice little train! 👍😁
Oh that poor train, chugging its little heart out!
glad to see there is still steam, although those leaks are painful to look at :
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 ?
Weiter so, ich sehe es immer wieder gerne, Deine "reportagen"
This is an International Living TREASURE.
Great film, big complments, thank you
Cool train video, nice stuff
blue girl on the rail.......shaaaa la la laaa..........she looks like a playful kid...............................Toy Girl! SL loves you
That was very calming to watch....
that whistle !! ....... priceless !
Great work..m from Siliguri....
What is the guage on that line. Seems terribly narrow.
2 foot gauge, i.e. about 600 mm.
Kangchenjunga mountain ( Third highest mountain in the world 8,586 m)
28:15
easy boarding...just leap into the slow running train
They also use diesel locomotives in Darjeeling Railway.
Sehr schöne Dokumentation unserer Reise, viele Grüße an Dich, Jan
Danke schön, Jan. Nilgiri kommt schon. Bis nächsten Mahl.
great film!
what camera did you use?
Filmed with a Sony Z100 in 4K 25p
In Denmark any kids so close to a train would have trickert a major police action 😂😂
The fact that the camera is close to the track does not mean that the videographer is close as well. The fact is that the videographer survived...
отлично, и мастеру спасибо
Very nice
Es un tren extraordinario q jamás se olvidara x q estuvo en todo el mudo
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.