From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9520 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Monday, August 15 2022 Volume 14 : Number 9520 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [FLASH ALERT] WINNER item inside ["Joe Sanderson" Subject: [FLASH ALERT] WINNER item inside [FLASH ALERT] WINNER item inside http://survivalopstac.za.com/P4X8xz4GdrlgsCR5AN9lpluYweQ01owthEaF4DH95WdWHzwrVA http://survivalopstac.za.com/pdD544YXT8C2H2RC1JVRWW_As1BSg4mRuq6p7wcydVe0Ca24TQ y the last decades of the 19th century, large numbers of administrative officials of the imperial and British Raj provincial governments had begun to travel to hill stations during the summers. Commerce in the stations had grown as had the trade with the plains. A train service to Darjeeling was announced in 1872. By 1878 trains could take summer residents from Calcutta, the capital of the British Indian Empire, to Siliguri at the base of the Darjeeling hills. Thereafter, Tonga horse-carriages were required to cover the last stretch on the Hill Cart Road. Ascending some 1,900-metre (6,300 ft), the journey required stopping at "halting barracks", or stables for feeding or changing the horses. By 1880, railway tracks were being aligned along the Hill Cart Road, and the East Indian Railway Company Jamalpur Locomotive Workshop had begun to build steam locomotives for the route. Miniature steam engines made by Sharp, Stewart and Company of Manchester, were employed for pulling the train on a narrow gauge of two feet. The train service to Darjeeling was opened in July 1881. After cresting at the Ghoom railway station at 2,300-metre (7,500 ft) above sea level, the train made a descent to Darjeeling. Darjeeling was now within a day's travel from Calcutta. The quadrangle of St Joseph's College, Darjeeling, now St Joseph's School, or North Point, established in 1888 Education became another aspect of Darjeeling's notability by the turn of the 20th century. After the Charter Act of 1833, which allowed unrestricted immigration, British wo ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9520 **********************************************