Darjeeling Himalayan Railway

[MrStan1941]

The railroad certainly goes through the middle of the town

[gallidakias]

Like like and fav!!!

[c69stock]

i love dhr ^_^ and those so cool locos

[NovioSites]

This is one awesome video! Big favourite!

[megatwingo]

Absolutely gorgeous train. Thumbs up! :)

[MachintoshCJ]

It just runs into the town and the road. Whoever built the line was an idiot.

3:45 Look at the dog. LOL

[megatwingo]

@MachintoshCJ

Many similar railways in Europe were build on roads and in the middle of towns. Mostly narrow gauge railways like this one here.

That was because of three things:

1) Lack of space to build it elsewhere

2) It was cheaper to build it on the streets because the state or the town already owned the area of the street and needn´t buy the land for the tracks from other people.

3) The streets were already leveled and flat and no big earth works needed to be made.

(To be continued)

[megatwingo]

@MachintoschCJ

(continuing with reply)

When all those narrow gauge lines in Europe were build in the middle or at the side of streets and in the middle of city streets there were no cars.

Those narrow gauge trains had the role of the cars and those narrow gauge lines were everywhere.

Look in a book about your area and you´ll find a narrow gauge train that was build in the beginning partly on the street and in city centers.

If you know history... you´ll know: No idoits build the Darjeeling line.

[steamboy51]

steam does alot more than turnaround service, they run the majority of the line's trains.

[bigsteam57]

@steamboy51 The majority of trains are indeed steam powered, but run out and back (turnaround) from each end. The through trains are diesel powered.