The old Goorkha Station of Darjeeling enchanted Lloyd and Grant. British officers, in 1829, by 1835 it had become a British sanatorium after the majaraj of sikkim had gifted it to governor-general lord William Bentick out of friendship, now a mellow century and a half year old. Darjeeling as the QUEEN OF HILL STATIONS. The Darjeeling is one of the most magnificient hill resorts in the world. A land of breath taking beauty crowned by the majestic himalayas.
The name of the town has been derived from the tibetan word 'dorje' which mans the precious stone or 'ecelesiastical sceptre, which is emblematic of the thunder bolt of lndra, and 'ling' a place, hence the land of the thunder bolt. The sceptre of Indra is believad to have fallen at a place were now stands the Obervatory Hill. The town it self, land out by lord Napier of royal engineers, is at an altitude of 2,134 meters, moving up the Hills, one is greeted by simling tea govdens, changing to firs, pines fast moving torrents, while around abound 4,000 types of flowering plants and 300 varieties of ferns, in duding the rare tree ferm.The British civil sorvant Dr, Campbell built the district and laid foundation of the noor multi-million dollor tea industry in 1841 A.D. Twenty five years later, there were already 40 gardens in 10,000 acres with an out-turn of halt a millon pounds. gen, !loud and Dr. Campbell, built 70 British bunga lows, was BuilIt a Bazar, and hospital,. The first hotel was Buiklt in Kurseong, the second in dar jeeling, not forgotten was the jail. for the time cultivation of tea and coffe was introcluced.Toy train on serepentine loop at batasia, train ( Maintrain ) huffs and puffs its way up the steep in cline without the aid cog-weels that some other hill railways use. The train completed in 1881 A.D by franklin prestage, the lillipution locomotines and cabins haul thorn selves through perhaps the most io mantic railroad in the world. l'ontIgni ereapers and dark green folio.,
banboor with feathey crests,goldengreen a pine shrubs and sweeping scenes of the extensive plains way down bellow can be seen, The train exerts its way up to Ghoom, The highest point on the railline at 7407 feet and then glides down to darjeeling. the toy train (mini) ride from new Jalpaiguri to Darjeeling.
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