The Nilgiri Mountain Railway (NMR) has noticed a tussle between NMR enthusiasts and the Salem division railway officers whenever construction work is taken up within the section.
The contemporary removing of 400 metres of the previous railway monitor at Ooty railway station used to be condemned via the Heritage Steam Chariot Trust (HSCT), but the railway officers mentioned the work used to be accomplished to strengthen the stretch.
“It is highly condemnable that a part of the monitor has been removed,” mentioned Okay Natarajan, managing trustee of HSCT.
Harishankar Varma, divisional regional manager, Southern Railway (Salem Division), informed TOI: “The a part of the monitor within the Ooty railway station has not been removed completely. It will likely be re-laid. This is a procedure to power the monitor.”
“As a long way as heritage value inventories are involved, a survey is being conducted in meter gauge railway sections that come with NMR and Darjeeling. The workout of surveying the inventories will likely be over via mid-March,” mentioned Varma.
On February 15, an previous overhead water tank used to be dismantled via the railway authorities, citing the truth that it used to be not in use. But Natarajan says such heritage gadgets belonging to the NMR section should be preserved for posterity. Otherwise, the NMR will lose its heritage value steadily.
When contacted, Subrata Nath, govt director, Heritage, Railway Board, Ministry of Railways, informed TOI: “If the mentioned structures are found within the stock record of heritage gadgets, then they should be preserved. Even whether it is 50 years previous, it should be preserved in a heritage website online.”
A letter from Railway Senior Section Engineer, Coonoor, addressed to the DRM mentioned the prevailing steel overhead tank used to be put in in 1962. So, the tank used to be over 50 years previous.
The dismantled tank has been shifted to Coimbatore.In another incident, a weighing scale of heritage value, which used to be shifted to the Coimbatore Railway station in 2012, used to be brought back to its authentic vacation spot, the Ooty railway station, on November 23, 2016. TOI had reported concerning the heritage weighing device of 2-tonne capacity, which used to be shifted from the Ooty railway station in 2012.
The weighing scale, a 1907-model made via The India Machinery Company Ltd, used to be brought back via the NMR and has been displayed at the platform for guests to see.NMR fans want the Ooty railway station to be maintained and its heritage value preserved. The leftover pieces of colonial history can deliver back memories of time long past via, they say.
NMR, Asia’s steepest and longest meter gauge mountain railway, is operated on Scottish designed ‘rack and pinion’ device, which used to be finished as much as Coonoor from Mettupalayam in June 1899. Only in 1908, it used to be extended to Ooty.
A experience within the “mountain teach” is a novel experience.
The NMR used to be declared as a heritage website online via UNESCO in 2005.
The contemporary removing of 400 metres of the previous railway monitor at Ooty railway station used to be condemned via the Heritage Steam Chariot Trust (HSCT), but the railway officers mentioned the work used to be accomplished to strengthen the stretch.
“It is highly condemnable that a part of the monitor has been removed,” mentioned Okay Natarajan, managing trustee of HSCT.
Harishankar Varma, divisional regional manager, Southern Railway (Salem Division), informed TOI: “The a part of the monitor within the Ooty railway station has not been removed completely. It will likely be re-laid. This is a procedure to power the monitor.”
“As a long way as heritage value inventories are involved, a survey is being conducted in meter gauge railway sections that come with NMR and Darjeeling. The workout of surveying the inventories will likely be over via mid-March,” mentioned Varma.
On February 15, an previous overhead water tank used to be dismantled via the railway authorities, citing the truth that it used to be not in use. But Natarajan says such heritage gadgets belonging to the NMR section should be preserved for posterity. Otherwise, the NMR will lose its heritage value steadily.
When contacted, Subrata Nath, govt director, Heritage, Railway Board, Ministry of Railways, informed TOI: “If the mentioned structures are found within the stock record of heritage gadgets, then they should be preserved. Even whether it is 50 years previous, it should be preserved in a heritage website online.”
A letter from Railway Senior Section Engineer, Coonoor, addressed to the DRM mentioned the prevailing steel overhead tank used to be put in in 1962. So, the tank used to be over 50 years previous.
The dismantled tank has been shifted to Coimbatore.In another incident, a weighing scale of heritage value, which used to be shifted to the Coimbatore Railway station in 2012, used to be brought back to its authentic vacation spot, the Ooty railway station, on November 23, 2016. TOI had reported concerning the heritage weighing device of 2-tonne capacity, which used to be shifted from the Ooty railway station in 2012.
The weighing scale, a 1907-model made via The India Machinery Company Ltd, used to be brought back via the NMR and has been displayed at the platform for guests to see.NMR fans want the Ooty railway station to be maintained and its heritage value preserved. The leftover pieces of colonial history can deliver back memories of time long past via, they say.
NMR, Asia’s steepest and longest meter gauge mountain railway, is operated on Scottish designed ‘rack and pinion’ device, which used to be finished as much as Coonoor from Mettupalayam in June 1899. Only in 1908, it used to be extended to Ooty.
A experience within the “mountain teach” is a novel experience.
The NMR used to be declared as a heritage website online via UNESCO in 2005.
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March 08, 2018
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