udhagamandalam the salem division of the southern railway on friday reintroduced chartered services in the nilgiri mountain railway nmr and a honeymooning couple from the uk graham william lynn and sylvia plasic were the first travellers the nilgiri mountain railway in tamil nadu is a unesco heritage sitethe couple exclusively hired the train through indian railway catering and tourism corporation irctc the couple spent rs 25 lakh for the oneway special charter train trip from mettupalayam to ooty 48km in the threecoach train with 143 seating capacity they travelled alone experiencing the serenity of the blue mountains the train chugged up the hill through 13 tunnels and forests the journey lasted five and half hoursthe special charter train departed from mettupalayam station around 910am and reached ooty at 220pmwhile a coalfired loco pulled the train from mettupalayam to coonoor a dieselfired loco was used from coonoor to ootythe couple was greeted at the coonoor railway station as well as at ooty railway stationaccording to railway officials the chartered train service on the nmr tracks is a promotional activity to boost the image of the mountain service across the globethe railways had run chartered services in the nmr from 1997 to 2000 later special chartered night services were run from 2002 to 2004 the chartered service has been reintroduced now after the railways revamped some locomotives and coachesread this story in bengali