The mountain railways of India are scattered from the North East of the country and the South of the Country. A famous Bollywood movie made the 'Toy Trains' as called, famous in the north eastern Darjeeling region. Another Bollywood movie made the Southern 'Toy Train' famous. The true heritage of the trains is the fact that the tracks and the trains themselves are the legacy of the British who left India after a long colonial rule. Still the steam engines used are the 'vintage' Swiss made beauties! The diesel engines have henceforth replaced some of the steam engines in the southern region in the stretch between Coonoor and Udhagamandalam, but it takes this power packed giants to take the greater and more terranious stretch between Mettupalayam and Coonoor. Find more about the trains in the official website of the Indian Railways. Jump to: navigation, search Typical Bollywood movie poster Bollywood is the name given to a popular Indian film industry based in Mumbai. ... The Toy Train approaching Darjeeling Darjeeling is a town in the Indian state of West Bengal and centre of the region of the same name, situated in the foothills of the Himalaya at elevations of between 2,000 and 3,000 metres above sea level. ...
The Nilgiri MountainRailway (NMR) connects the town of Mettupalayam with the hill station of Ooty (correctly Udhagamandalam), in the Nilgiri Hills of southern India.
The Nilgiri Mountainrailway is one of the oldest mountainrailways in India.
The railway is one of the few in the world to be dependant on steam locomotives.
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