291 x 237 mm. Showing a section of the line where the track makes a complete loop to cope with the tortuous nature of the hills. A locomotive with freight cars and open-sided passenger wagons is in the process of negotiating the curve. Before the construction of the hill railway, travellers bound for Darjeeling could take a train on the Eastern Bengal Railway as far as Siliguri, but then had to make a roundabout journey by bullock cart and boat to reach the hill station fifty miles to the north. The line up to Darjeeling, on a 2 ft gauge was built in 1880-85, with a ruling gradient for the greater part of the line of 1 in 25.