DHR 778
DHR Locomotive number 778 was built for the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. Nicknamed the "Toy Train", the railway is a 2 ft (610 mm) gauge narrow-gauge railway from Siliguri to Darjeeling in West Bengal, run by the Indian Railways.
DHR 778 is a 0-4-0ST B Class, a design built between 1889 and 1927. A total of 34 were built. By 2005 only 12 remained on the railway and in use (or under repair). The B class locomotives were designed by Sharp Stewart & Co. of Glasgow and built by them, their successors North British Locomotive Company (NBL, Glasgow), and three each by Baldwin Locomotive Works (BLW, Philadelphia, USA), and the DHR works at Tindharia.
Number 778 (originally No.19) was built in 1889 by Sharp Stewart & Co at the Atlas Works in Glasgow. It is the only DHR locomotive that has been taken out of India. After many years out of use at the Hesston Steam Museum, it was sold to enthusiast Adrian Shooter in the United Kingdom and restored to working order. As of 2009, it is based on Beeches, a private railway in Oxfordshire, and has also run on the Ffestiniog Railway, the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway and the Launceston Steam Railway.
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by Mnemic
Door 2.12
by: MnemicYou can tell it to my face
But I will never know what you mean
Silence triggers the adrenaline
Some things are never meant to be seen
Steel plate nailed into the corner
Be sure that people know what it means
The room is empty yet so full of lives
Not everything is what it seems
Hesitating or speeding
It's all just a bleeding way to be
Heading down the same old road
That'll lead you to the place I see
I've been there
Do you see? Do you see me?
Do you see what I mean? Be sure that
The sun never shines behind door 2.12
It gotta be cold behind door 2.12
Eyes closed, everything's at ease
I get to go where no one goes when alive
If you'd seen the things I've seen
You'd know that there's no way to survive
The sun never shines behind door 2.12
It gotta be cold behind door 2.12
This is peace of mind behind door 2.12
I feel so cold behind door 2.12
Do you see? Do you see me?