The Nilgiri Mountain Railway is a popular tourist attraction for tourists travelling from Mettupalayam to Coonoor and Ooty. This unique Meter Gauge section which has been conferred with Heritage status by UNESCO runs on ‘Rack and Pinion System’ through the virgin hills of Western Ghats. The 28 kms stretch between Mettupalayam – Coonoor covered on the heritage steam train gives the tourists a lifetime experience and rekindles the romance of train journeys.
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GM Southern Railway conducts annual inspection in Trivandrum Division
Trivandrum: R K Kulshrestha, General Manager, Southern Railway conducted the annual inspection of Thiruvananthapuram Division today and also reviewed the Division’s performance. Thiruvananthapuram Central, Kazhakuttam, Varkala Sivagiri, Kollam, Karunagapalli and Kottayam were the railway stations inspected.
Read MoreSouthern Railway publishes Summer Special Trains timetable
Chennai: For the first time, Southern Railway has brought out a proper Time Table of Summer Specials in a soft version. The timetable has all sector wise summer specials proposed during April – June 2018, with detailed timings. The link for the soft copy of the timetable is given hereunder in the form of a QR Code. The QR can be scanned using a Mobile Scanner that’ll open a link containing the soft copy of the above timetable (this can be opened in the same manner in which the other QR…
Read MoreIndian Railway goes digital to motivate employees to share good work
New Delhi: Continuing on its transformation journey, Indian Railways has developed an Online Portal called “Rail Good Work Portal” to enable the employees to freely share the good work being done by them and encourage easy and fast replication of these good work by other units.
Read MoreRailways to dispense with pasting of reservation charts on coaches
Trivandrum: Based on encouraging results obtained from trials conducted in selected stations, Railways are going ahead with their green initiative of dispensing with pasting of charts on coaches at all A1, A and B Class Stations. This will be on trial basis for a period of six months from March 1st. For Southern Railway alone, this will result in savings of more than 28 tonnes of Charting paper or Rs.1,70,000/- every year, pointing to a major effort in becoming more eco-friendly. Railways’ other efforts in this direction include encouraging ‘E’ ticketing…
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