The iconic Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) has a first since its birth 137 years ago – an evening daily toy train service hauled by a steam engine. But the evening narrow-gauge train, introduced on Monday for tourists, does not go the whole hog. The train returns from Rongtong after a 25-minute halt for refreshment and engine reversal,” Pranav Jyoti Sharma, spokesperson of Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR), said. The evening special toy train has a first class coach and a dining car with a total seating capacity of 29. For instance, the mountain railway earned ₹7.65 crore against an expenditure of ₹22.83 crore on maintenance during the 2016-17 fiscal.

Source: The Hindu December 19, 2018 07:10 UTC