Steam Engine-Heritage train-Nilgiri Mountain Railway (NMR). @Ooty ,TN , India

youtu.be/Im4D0cBttco On July 2019, NMR celebrated the 14th anniversary of its induction as a Unesco World Heritage Site. Now, along with the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway and the Kalka-Shimla Railway, NMR is also part of the heritage ‘Mountain Railways of India’.

NMR has more than a few distinctions. On its 46 km journey, the little blue train climbs from 325 m to 2,240 m, negotiating along the way the steepest gradient of any railway line in South Asia. It does this with its rack and pinion system - it is the only rack railway in India - where cog wheels mesh with a toothed rack rail to ease the climb.
NMR uses one of the world’s oldest engines, 'X' Class steam rack locomotives, manufactured by the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works of Winterthur in Switzerland, on the rack and pinion section of its tracks.

When this railway was completed in 1908, the last stop was the hill town of Coonoor. The line was later extended to Ooty (Udhagamandalam). It now passes through 13 stations: Mettupalayam, Kallar (now closed for passengers), Adderley, Hillgrove, Runnymede, Katteri, Coonoor, Wellington, Aravankadu, Ketti, Lovedale, Fernhill and Ooty.

These train journeys offer some of the best experiences as they chug on routes that have been carved through mountains and beautiful valleys.

The train leaves Mettupalayam at 7.10 each morning, switches from a steam to a diesel engine at Coonoor station, and chugs into Ooty at noon. [ Courtesy :- The Hindu News ]
Nilgiri Mountain Railways (NMR) is a popular tourist attraction, this meter-gauge rail is also called as Toy Train.
Online ticket booking Website of Indian railway NMR

www.irctc.co.in/nget/train-search

www.irctchelp.in/nilgiri-mountain-railway/

Taken in: India / Tamil Nadu / Mettuchēri (show map)

Taken on: January 19, 2021

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