Talk:Nilgiri Mountain Railway

World Heritage Site

It's true that Nilgiri's Mountain railways has been declared a world heritage site. But when was it exactly? Recently (15th July 2005) valley of the Flowers in Uttaranchal has been included in thw world heritage site list, but Am confused which has been declared when. Or whether both have been declared at the same time. Because we get both of these places listed in UN World Heritage Site website. anybody, please enlighten me...... shree

Nilgiri Mountain Railway was grouped with Darjeeling Railway on 15th July 2005 under the title Mountain Railways of India. See website [1]. AHEMSLTD 13:02, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Abt Rack

I am familliar with the Abt rack rail system from the Snowdon Mountain Railway, but I have never seen the "Alternate Biting Teeth (ABT)" explanation of the name.

I have always understood "Abt" to be the name of the (Swiss) inventor.

Is this a case of a second explanation growing up such as PTFE tape being called "Plastic Tape For Engineers"? AHEMSLTD 14:58, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

I agree. The Abt system is named after its inventor, Roman Abt who was a Swiss locomotive engineer; also the Nilgiri Mountain Railway is very far from being its only user. I have removed the following from the article as it is patently wrong:

It is the only railway system in the world using the technology of Alternate Biting Teeth (ABT) of the rack and pinion system. This technology enables the engine at the rear to push up the rakes while climbing up and holds the trains while decending.

-- Chris j wood 14:11, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

I think it must have been copied directly off one of the websites listed on the page. AHEMSLTD 11:51, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Electrification

"During the Centenary celebrations of Nilgiri Mountain Railway in 1999 the then Railway Minister Nitish Kumar announced that the line would soon be electrified." Is it true that heritage listing forced abandonment of this plan?Myrtone (the strict Australian wikipedian)

Certainly not in the way this article portrays it. To reach world heritage status, the NMR must have been nominated as such by the Indian government. There is no way that UNESCO can step in and list a place over the head of the sovereign government of the country in which that place is located. On the other hand this may be a case of the national government using world heritage status as a tool to override local state government decisions; I know that has certainly been the case in (eg) Australia. Or possible one government department playing off another. It isn't clear from the article whether Nitish Kumar was a minister in the Indian government or the Tamil Nadu government. -- Chris j wood 16:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

SI vs. Imperial

Is there a good reason why distances are given in kilometers but elevations are given in feet?

Good question. Perhaps the article could show both. --DThomsen8 (talk) 01:35, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 18:56, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Relationship between articles

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to not merge, as they seem to be different lines. Klbrain (talk) 10:27, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

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Is this railway the same one as the Mountain Train in Ooty? Perhaps there is confusion on my part, and that article should be deleted, or merged with this article. --DThomsen8 (talk) 01:34, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

They appear to be different lines, but maybe that's just because the details are presented a bit differently. 64.85.229.248 (talk) 08:46, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Hello. I put a little note into the TV and Film section yesterday about Coonoor Station being used for many of the railway scenes in 'a passage to india'. I think that my 'skype' made a mess of the settings for the main photograph, so somebody thankfully reverted it. (I'll just de-install skype...I never use it). Could somebody (without skype !!) put the note back in for me, because the link at the end goes to a site with some really nice 'moody' photos of the station, which I enjoyed and I think others might too. Many thanks. (ChrisRed)86.158.124.141 (talk) 08:00, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Ah, that's what it is. I've seen the same garbled text on quite a few articles and have had to revert it. I'll try reinserting the "clean" part of your addition if I can extract it. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 08:03, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your help. Yes, it seems that skype finds anything that it thinks looks like phone numbers and highlights them so you can call the numbers. I wish it wouldn't. I've deleted skype now. I don't understand the 'citation needed' tag though. If you click on the link, it is its own citation surely?? Once again, thanks. (ChrisRed)86.158.124.141 (talk) 16:15, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Just out of interest (cos I'm thinking about a HOn3 model). The article says that the average gradient over the rack section is 1/24.5, but I get the feeling that this has been worked out over the full run from Mettupalayam to Coonoor. The first part of the line from Mettupalayam to Kalaar is relatively flat, and worked by adhesion (58m rise in 8km = 0.725% = 1/135). The rack starts at Kalaar and ends at Coonoor; that's 1328m rise in 20km = 6.64% = 1/15. I know 1/15 sounds pretty steep, but it also looks and sounds pretty steep on YouTube. I know...I really must get out more :-) )(ChrisRed) 81.157.16.194 (talk) 18:46, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

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NMR is in which division?

The organizational aspect of NMR within IR is not mentioned in the article. Is NMR under the Salem division of SR or is it some special entity?

07:27, 15 August 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gulielmus estavius (talk • contribs) Yes, NMR was transferred from the Palghat Division to Salem Division from Nov. 2007. - V.M. Govind Krishnan — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.161.28.37 (talk) 12:38, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

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