Lock down Day No- 51
Video No- 51
Compilation of videos of Passenger trains arriving and departing the last station of Nilgiri Mountain Railways, Udagamandalam (Ooty) railway station.
1) Coonoor YDM-4 6664 pushing the 56136 Mettupalayam-Udagamandalam (Ooty) passenger from the rear arrives Ooty.
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more... passenger has a locomotive change at Coonoor. It is hauled by an Oil fired X class Steam Engine from Mettupalayam to Coonoor. Then a YDM-4 is attached for it's onward journey to Udagamandalam (Ooty).
2) After a 15 minute halt the same passenger departs as 56142 Udagamandalam (Ooty)-Coonoor Passenger hauled by Coonoor YDM-4 6664 in SHF mode in the front.
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.
Videos shot on 27th February, 2019.