🚉 Mettupalayam Railway station | Walk Through | ( Station Code: MTP )

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,because the Nilgiri Mountain Railway starts from here. The station is served by the Salem Division of Southern Railway zone of Indian Railways. inauguration of the service, from 15 October 1929, the two through carriages operating between Mangalore and Peshawar (Which was located in India Afghanistan Border then) were restricted to run between Mettupalayam instead of Mangalore as it was more financial viable. The British officer working in northern India could come for resting in Neelagiris using this train.Tea Garden Express ran in metre gauge between Udhagamandalam and Mettupalayam and broad gauge between Mettupalayam and Cochin Harbour Terminus. 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.
Nilgiri Express termed as Blue Mountain use to cover Madras to Mettupalayam & acts as link to MG Blue Mountain Express for Ooty with through Coach attached to Podanur Calicut Mail. Madras Ooty Through Timings were:- Madras 21.00; Ooty 10.20 & in return:- Ooty 16.30; Madras 05.50. It still exist past NMR UNESCO World Heritage Tag in 1994 with Ooty Mettupalayam Passenger acts as connecting train. Nilgiri Express use to be main portion of Bangalore Mail, Island Express, Malabar Express & Bombay-Coimbatore (Through Coach bifurcate/amalgamate to Madras-Bombay Mail).
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