Show A RAILWAY IN TIlE HIMALAYAS In his inaugural speech upon the occasion of the recent opening of the Darjeeling Tramway or Hirn alayan Railway as AngloIndians prefer to call it Sir Ashley Eden claimed for the enterprise the merit of having solved problems never before solved in the history of railway rail-way undertakings We know I he added of no other line which ascends 7400 feet in fifty miles mounts gradients of one in twent one and comes around curves of seventy feet radius The line is described as presenting to the eye the appearance of a snake winding up into the clouds The tramway which is fifty miles long enables the journey from Calcutta 361 miles to be performed in about twentyfour hours Its terminus at Darjeeling is 7690 feet above the level of the sea The capital of the Darjeeling Tramway Company is stated to have been raised entirely in India London Daily News I |