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The Nilgiri Mountain Railway (NMR), colloquially called the "Toy Train" by locals, is a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge railway in Nilgiris district, Tamil Nadu, India, built by the British in 1908. [1] The railway is operated by the Southern Railway [2] and is the only rack railway in India. The railway relies on its fleet of steam ...
The train is intended for travellers to and from the Nilgiris District of Tamil Nadu. Though the train does not enter the district, the main towns in the Nilgiris have designated seats and berths on this train allocated for sale at local booking offices. Ooty, Coonoor, Wellington, Aruvankadu, Ketti, Kotagiri and Gudalur all have this provision ...
The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, with the nickname "the Toy Train," is a 610 mm (2.00 ft) narrow-gauge railway that links the 88 km (55 mi) between Siliguri and Darjeeling. The latter is a major summer hill station and the centre of a flourishing tea-growing district located in West Bengal .
Udagamandalam railway station (also known as Ooty railway station)(station code: UAM [2]) is an NSG–4 category Indian railway station in Salem railway division of Southern Railway zone. [2] It is a terminus station in Ooty, Tamil Nadu. [3] The terminus is a part of the Nilgiri Mountain Railway, a World Heritage Site. [4]
The Nilgiri Railway Company was formed in 1885, and the Mettupalayam-Coonoor section of the track was opened for traffic on 15 June 1899. The railway was operated by the Madras Railway until 31 December 1907, when it was handed over to the South Indian Railway. The line from Coonoor to Ooty was completed in 1908.
Ketti railway station (station code: KXT) is an NSG–6 category Indian railway station in Salem railway division of Southern Railway zone. [1] It is a railway station of the Nilgiri Mountain Railway in Ketti, a hill station town, in the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu. It is a World Heritage Site and the popular Ooty passenger passes by the ...
The exhibits are interspersed with posters of high-speed trains from around the world, the history of Indian Railways and models of coaches made for Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Vietnam and Zambia. They also include a coach from the Mumbai suburban train network, old railway maps of India, century-old clocks, and a diesel-locomotive engine block ...
It is a railway station serving Lovedale, a town located south of Udhagamandalam (Ooty), in the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu. A notable tourist attraction, it is one of the stations of the Nilgiri Mountain Railway, built in 1907, and is a UNESCO declared World Heritage Site. It is one of the halts for the historic Ooty passenger.