Lock down Day No- 43
Video No- 43
Coonoor (ONR) Oil fired steam locomotive "X 37396" hauled 56137 Udagamandalam (Ooty)- Mettupalayam Passenger arrives Mettupalayam railway station on the meter gauge platform.
The passenger has a locomotive change at Coonoor. It is hauled by a diesel locomotive YDM-4 from Udagamandalam to Coonoor. Then the Oil fired X class Steam locomotive is attached for it's...
more... onward journey to Mettupalayam.
The Ooty-Mettupalayam section is also called as Nilgiri Mountain Railway (NMR). In July 2005, UNESCO added the NMR as an extension to the World Heritage Site of Darjeeling Himalayan Railways (DHR).
This section comes under Salem Division of Southern Railways.
Video shot on 27th February, 2019.