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Tamil Nadu
Nilgiri Mountain Railway passengers suffer six-hour ordeal
COIMBATORE: Close to 200 passengers, including foreign tourists, bound for Coonoor and Udhagamandalam were stranded in the middle of a jungle between Kallar and Hillgrove stations on Sunday when the engine of the Nilgiri Mountain Railway’s (NMR) morning service suffered a breakdown.
Aggrieved passengers told The Hindu over phone from the spot where they were stranded that the train left Mettupalayam at 7 a.m. It came to a halt around 8 a.m. after it crossed the Kallar station.
Then began the six-hour ordeal for passengers. “We are here since 8 a.m. and cannot move from this spot looking for alternative transport, because this is a jungle,” said an anguished R. Kannan of Thanjavur. President of the Medical Representatives Association of Thanjavur, he was going to Udhagamandalam to attend a conference. “They said a replacement engine would be sent. But, there is no sign of it,” he said around 12.45 p.m.
A railway official at the Mettupalayam station said later that another engine was sent from Mettupalayam and the NMR service left for Udhagamandalam at 2.20 p.m.
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