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The Nilgiri Mountain Railway toy train is the highlight of a visit to the popular in ooty, in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu. Established in the early 19th century by the British as the summer headquarters of the Chennai government, Ooty now draws tourists wanting to escape the stifling summer heat. Although the railway was proposed in 1854, it wasn't completed until 1908 as the rocky terrain and thickly forested hills made the work difficult. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2005. Route The Nilgiri Mountain Railway is located in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu. It runs from Mettupalayam to Udagamandalam (Ooty), via Coonoor, in the Nilgiri Hills. The track is 46 kilometers (28.5 miles) long, and passes over 250 bridges (including 32 major ones) and through 16 tunnels. This railway is particularly picturesque because of the surrounding rocky terrain, ravines, tea plantations, and forested hills. Coonoor, with its world famo...

NILGIRI MOUNTAIN RAILWAY Steam Engine Connecting with the Bogies The  Nilgiri Mountain Railway  (NMR) is a  1,000 mm    metre gauge  railway in  Tamil Nadu ,  India , built by the  British  in 1908. The Railway is operated by the  Southern Railway   and is the only  rack railway  in India. The railway relies on its fleet of  steam locomotives . For the past several years, NMR has used diesel locomotives instead of steam locomotives on the section between  Coonoor  and  Udhagamandalam . Local people and tourists have led a campaign to return to the use of steam locomotives in this section. In July 2005,  UNESCO  added the Nilgiri Mountain Railway as an extension to the  World Heritage Site  of  Darjeeling Himalayan Railway . The site then became known as  Mountain railways of India . https://youtu.be/hIv_1SpqQyI ...