Date: 1882
Mr. Prestage, the managing-director of the tram-line, had arranged that we should be " trollied " down the mountains instead of going in the train ; so at Ghoom station, which is higher than Darjeeling, and from which to the plain there is a continuous descent, we found two little tram-cars fastened together, and Mr. Walker, one of the officials — a Scotchman, of course — who managed the brakes, and took us down in the most skilful manner, at the rate of fifteen miles an hour, stopping an hour for breakfast at the charming little Clarendon Hotel at Khersiong, from which we had our last look of the gigantic Kinchinjunga.  The motion of the trollies was the most delightful I ever experienced in travelling, and without the locomotive you see the scenery far better.  Its grandeur and variety struck us more than when going up.