A final look at a wet Kallar Station before we start our trek towards Coonoor
Check & Engage
Check and Engage the Pinion before starting the ascent. Look at the 12.5 gradient marker. For every 12.5 feet you walk along, you ascent a foot vertically. That is is SOME gradient. Infact I think this is Asia’s steepest gradient
Can You See That
The Gradient as unassuming as it looks, is one of the steepest in Asia. A 1 in 12.5 gradient from Mettupalayam to Coonoor on the UNESCO Heritage, Nilgiri Mountain Railway.
Hold On To Me
Welcome To NMR
The real ascend begins here. NMR welcomes you for an enchanting ride to the Blue Mountains
Deceptive Kallar
A green and refreshing Kallar. The NMR passenger stops to get its teeth aligned to the ones on the track. Atleast this should have given us the hint 🙂
Spoilt By Nature
I envy the locals who live here. A wet and lazy saturday morning at a quaint little station with the misty Nilgiris in the background.
Ready To Roll
X Series 37391 freshly POH’ed and ready to be re-commissioned, waiting for someone to lay her down on the tracks
Careful WAPPIE
Says the doggy as it waits for the P7 to complete its shunting activities. It needs to cross the tracks to visit the museum
The P7 Badminton Saga
Now with the X Series out of the way, P7 starts it shunting activities to get the Coimbatore bound passenger onto the platform. The entire train cannot be shunted in one go as the yard is not big enough to handle such a large rake. So the P7 will get one half out of the yard, reverse and couple the rest of the rake and get the whole rake into the platform. It was interesting to watch the shunting LP’s getting trained on a P7
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