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Nilgiri Mountain Railway Ride in Coonoor

A steam locomotive with a nostalgic appeal

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About Nilgiri Mountain Railway Ride in Coonoor

Featured in several Bollywood films such as Dil Se and Sadma, the Nilgiri Mountain Railway (NMR) is a metre gauge railway in Tamil Nadu. Built under British rule in 1908, Nilgiri Mountain Railway runs up and down a scenic route in the Nilgiri Hills.

Hop on a train with a lavish interior and enjoy the view, from the window pane, of clouds swirling around forested hills. It’s a soul-stirring ride as the train makes its way through the Shola forests, tea estates, and walls of Pine trees. The Nilgiri Mountain Railway route is about 45 kilometres long with 13 stations. It’s a nostalgia-dipped train ride which is enjoyed by thousands of honeymooners and families at a negligible cost.

Also known as toy train ride, Nilgiri Mountain Railway runs between Mettupalayam Station and Ooty Station. The train ride, which climbs nearly 1900 metres along its route, has the steepest track in Asia. From Mettupalayam Junction to Coonoor station, the NMR runs on an Abt rack and pinion system to climb the steep track. Today, it’s the only functional rack railway in India. While the uphill journey from Mettupalayam to Ooty via Coonoor takes about 4 hours and 50 minutes, the downhill journey on the same route is covered in about 3 hours 40 minutes.

Still painted in its original colours of blue and yellow, Nilgiri Mountain Railway features sports bench-seats and there are no glass windows or curtains in the coaches to provide an uninterrupted view of mist-clad hills and lush grasslands. In July 2005, UNESCO declared Nilgiri Mountain Railway as a World Heritage Site. Kangra-Shimla Railway, Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, and NMR comprise the site known as the Mountain Railways of India.  

Taking a train ride from Ooty to Coonoor or vice versa is a popular thing to do for tourists in Tamil Nadu.

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    Anjani's 4 days trip to Coonoor

    The hotel in Ooty was good but the varieties of food in the hotel was limited . Need to improve the restaurant Pukara lake and waterfall
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    Sourav Bose

    Kolkata

    Sourav's 7 days trip to Coonoor

    Hotel room in Ooty was very untidy and full of flying, even the hotel refused any other room
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    Andaman

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    Mumbai

    Shivpundhir's 5 days trip to Coonoor

    Yes it was a good experience. Everything went smoothly. Yes it was a good experience. Everything went smoothly.
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    New delhi

    Supriya's 4 days trip to Coonoor

    Hello, I booked my family trip for rameshwaram from bookitforgetit through travel triangle. Me Dhruv was our cordinator for the trip. He was very helpful and active regarding all bookings including flight. As we were travelling with kids, we wanted a smooth trip and he provided all. Special thank
    s to our guide and travel assistant Mr Muthu to provide so smooth and wonderful experience with different Mandir darshan and sightseeing. Overall very nice experience. Thank you Hello, I booked my family trip for rameshwaram from bookitforgetit through travel triangle. Me Dhruv was our cordinator for the trip. He was very helpful and active regarding all bookings including flight. As we were travelling with kids, we wanted a smooth trip and he provided all. Special thanks to our guide and travel assistant Mr Muthu to provide so smooth and wonderful experience with different Mandir darshan and sightseeing. Overall very nice experience. Thank you
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    Bengaluru

    Ambikadas's 3 days trip to Coonoor

    Stay was good. Sight seeing could have been better.
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    Udaipur

    Arpit's 5 days trip to Coonoor

    Worst experience with Travel tringle and trip sailer, I booked hotels for my trip with 4 star category, after making payment trip sailer changed my hotels to lowerand worst class hotels by stating that rooms are not available even they didnot discussed with me for changing hotels, when I checked ot
    her platform room are showing vacent, also after change of hotel they didnot refund the differential amount as well, after that when I went for check in I found that rooms not booked and on my complaint they booked the hotel to a third class hotel, and after spending 3 hours outside hotel I have to go for another hotel, trip sailer is a completely fraud company and behaviour of sheetal and saurabh was too bad, they are not customer oriented and totally unprofessional, when I made complaint to travel tringle executive, he was also feeling helpless and not supported to me, I am surprize to see that travel tringle is doing business with such fraud agents. worst experience this time but still I expect that Travel tringle will help in refunding differential amout and will take strict action to this fraud company trip sailer. worst experience
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    KDANIEL Raj

    Chennai

    K Daniel's 4 days trip to Coonoor

    Hotel is good there service is fast but basic essentials like keetle in room not available is disappointing especially this is 3 Star Hotel also for room heater they are charging 300 is unacceptable especially this is hill station they are already charging hotel stay high price because of Hill stati
    on it should be free . Once I paid advance to travel agency there is no proper update from Agency very poor I have to reach them for every time to get the weather updates and voucher very poor from Aryan Coonor and Mudhumalai is one of the best days we enjoyed and weather is great
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    Piyush Arora

    Bengaluru

    Piyush's 2 days trip to Coonoor

    Great Experience at Hotel But Travel Agent not good
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    Kerala

    Saranya's 3 days trip to Coonoor

    I recently traveled to Mysore with my 6 year old daughter. It’s was very comfortable planned and the stay was really good. Thanks Shishir for the planning and booking the best for us. Even the driver was very polite and patient with us. I would recommend this travels anytime. I recently traveled to
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    Where can I book tickets for Nilgiri Mountain Railway?

     

    Train tickets can be booked from IRCTC website, just like for any other train in India.

    How much does the Nilgiri Mountain Railway tickets cost?

     

    INR 25 for second class coaches and INR 150 or INR 185 for first classes depending on the destination.

    Can I take train back from Ooty to Coonoor on the same day?

     

    Yes, it’s possible to visit Ooty from Coonoor and return on the same day. The journey each side takes about one hour.

    Can we book Nilgiri mountain railway online?

     

    Yes. You can visit the government authorized IRCTC website, and book the ticket for Nilgiri mountain railway online without any hassle. 

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