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From: "Andrew Sellon" <>
Subject: Re: [India-L] Indian Railways
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 13:03:55 +0100
References: <019301c45f50$160894a0$6401a8c0@etob.phub.net.cable.rogers.com>

Arvind Kolhatkar -

Thank you for a post that was both most entertaining and instructive. It
brought back the smells and the sounds, the thumps and the bumps, of being
hauled up from Mombasa to Nairobi by one of those stupendous Beyer-Garrett
articulated steam locomotives. (Yes, I know that wasn't India, but ....).

A summit of 7,400 is really something, although a thousand or more short of
the Kenyan main line.

Yours Aye Andrew Sellon East Anglia
We have the railroad now within five miles. Bath in two hours, London in
six, - in short, everywhere in no time! Every accident is an advantage, and
leads to an improvement. What we want is, an overturn which would kill a
bishop or at least a dean. This mode of transport would then become perfect.
Rev. Sydney Smith 1771-1854, Canon of St. Paul's.

From: "Arvind Kolhatkar" <>

> At the site http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/irs/irshome/papers/robert2.htm I
came across the following interesting pieces about Indian Railways:
>
> The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway:
>
> < Darjeeling, sited at an elevation of over 2000 metres in the eastern
Himalayas, was the first hill station of British India and also the first to
be served by rail. The origins of Darjeeling and its railway are part of the
expansion of British India during the last decades of East India Company
rule.
<very long snip>

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