{"id":2988,"date":"2016-03-21T11:38:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T06:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goheritagerun.com\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2016-08-10T11:43:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T06:13:36","slug":"nilgiri-mountain-railway-popular-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goheritagerun.com\/nilgiri-mountain-railway-popular-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nilgiri Mountain Railway in Popular Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Nilgiri Mountain Railway has had a slot of reel-time that you probably didn\u2019t know about.<\/p>\n
The Nilgiri Mountain Railway (NMR) is a well known tourist attraction in Ooty. After 45 years of planning and labor, the railway was set up in Ooty in 1899, during the course of the colonial rule in India. Colonial India was all about novelties, and this railway is definitely one of them. The landscape of the Nilgiris definitely makes for a stunning view, as one travels through Metupalaiyam to Udhagamandalam a.k.a Ooty.<\/p>\n
The novelty of the NMR makes it something of fascination for enthusiastic travelers. Its widespread usage during the British Raj is also probably what made the idea of a Toy Train stick to the fabric of Ooty\u2019s heritage-worthy material culture. The railway line has earned several features in popular culture owing to its novelty status.<\/p>\n
BBC, in 2010, released a series of documentaries<\/a> covering the several expansive railway networks in India, featuring the Nilgiri Mountain Railway. The film was directed by Tarun Bhartiya, Hugo Smith and Nick Mattingly.<\/p>\n