Mettupalayam railway station
Mettupalayam railway station is a train station located in Mettupalayam, a suburb of Coimbatore district in Tamil Nadu, India. Its railway code is MTP. It is one of the important railway stations located in the Coimbatore District,[2] because the Nilgiri Mountain Railway to the hill station of Ooty starts from here. It is the connection between the narrow-gauge Nilgiri Mountain Railway and the broad-gauge main network of Indian Railways.
Mettupalayam | |
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| Indian Railways station | |
 Ooty Passenger (UNESCO Heritage train) at the station | |
| General information | |
| Location | Mettupalayam, Coimbatore Tamil Nadu, India |
| Coordinates | 11.2989°N 76.9355°E |
| Owned by | Indian Railways[1] |
| Line(s) | Coimbatore–Mettupalayam line Nilgiri Mountain Railway |
| Tracks | 3 electrified broad gauge, 5 narrow gauge |
| Construction | |
| Parking | Available |
| Other information | |
| Status | Functioning |
| Station code | MTP |
| Zone(s) | Southern Railway zone |
| Division(s) | Salem |
| Fare zone | Southern Railway zone |
| History | |
| Opened | 1873 |
| Electrified | yes |
| Location | |
  Mettupalayam Location within India  Mettupalayam Mettupalayam (Tamil Nadu) | |
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The station is served by the Salem Division of Southern Railway zone of Indian Railways. The Grand Trunk Express used to run from Mettupalayam to Peshawar from 15 October 1929, and then till Lahore but was restricted to New Delhi to Madras the following year, which remains the case till today.[3][4] Tea Garden Express ran in metre gauge between Udhagamandalam and Mettupalayam and broad gauge between Mettupalayam and Cochin Harbour Terminus.[5] [6] Post Indian independence, the Ooty–Mettupalayam trip was cut off and the train ran as No.565/566 between Cochin Harbour Terminus and Mettupalayam, since the 1970s.[7][8] Today the Nilgiri (Blue Mountain) Express covers Madras to Mettupalayam and acts as link to MG Blue Mountain Express for Ooty. Nilgiri Express used to be the main portion of Bangalore Mail,[9] Island Express, Malabar Express and Bombay-Coimbatore (Through Coach bifurcate/amalgamate to Madras-Bombay Mail).[10][11]
The Mettupalayam Ooty Mountain train (06136) only departs from Mettupalayam after the arrival of Blue Mountain Express(12671) at Mettupalayam [12]
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References
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- "VIII". Report by the Railway board on Indian Railways for 1929-30:Volume I. Calcutta: Central Publication Branch, Government of India. 1930. p. 71.
- S. Shankar. "Classic Trains of India". Indian Railways Fan Club Association. Archived from the original on 4 May 2015. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
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- "Nilgiri Railway (India) No 944 bis". whc.unesco.org.
- "Table 6: Coimbatore - Mettupalayam - Udhagamandalam & #124; Chainage Documents - IRFCA.org". www.irfca.org.
