Railway Station --- Ooty / Udagamandalam (Ooty)

 railway station, UNESCO World Heritage Site, railway terminal

Terminus of the 46 km UNESCO World Heritage Site: Nilgiri Mountain Railway from 1908, after the line was extended from Coonoor. It has Retiring rooms for tourists, and few daily trains running between Ooty and Coonoor, one of these going onward to Mettupalayam to offer connectivity with the Chennai-Mettupalayam Nilgiri Expresses.

Do read about the public effort to keep this 114 yrs old railway, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in running condition, in the book: "NMR-FROM LIFELINE TO OBLIVION" by V.M. Govind Krishnan. This book is available at Higginbothams in Ooty, and ISSU Book Center, Coonoor. The book is listed in the 152 yrs old Nilgiri Library , Ootacamund, and at the Northwestern University Transportation Library, Evanston, Illinois, USA.