Talk:Nilgiri Mountain Railway
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It's true that Nilgiri's Mountain railways has been declared a world heritage site. But when was it exactly? Recently (15th July 2005) valley of the Flowers in Uttaranchal has been included in thw world heritage site list, but Am confused which has been declared when. Or whether both have been declared at the same time. Because we get both of these places listed in UN World Heritage Site website. anybody, please enlighten me...... shree
- Nilgiri Mountain Railway was grouped with Darjeeling Railway on 15th July 2005 under the title Mountain Railways of India. See website [1]. AHEMSLTD 13:02, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Abt Rack
I am familliar with the Abt rack rail system from the Snowdon Mountain Railway, but I have never seen the "Alternate Biting Teeth (ABT)" explanation of the name.
I have always understood "Abt" to be the name of the (Swiss) inventor.
Is this a case of a second explanation growing up such as PTFE tape being called "Plastic Tape For Engineers"? AHEMSLTD 14:58, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
- I agree. The Abt system is named after its inventor, Roman Abt who was a Swiss locomotive engineer; also the Nilgiri Mountain Railway is very far from being its only user. I have removed the following from the article as it is patently wrong:
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- It is the only railway system in the world using the technology of Alternate Biting Teeth (ABT) of the rack and pinion system. This technology enables the engine at the rear to push up the rakes while climbing up and holds the trains while decending.
- -- Chris j wood 14:11, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
I think it must have been copied directly off one of the websites listed on the page. AHEMSLTD 11:51, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Electrification
"During the Centenary celebrations of Nilgiri Mountain Railway in 1999 the then Railway Minister Nitish Kumar announced that the line would soon be electrified." Is it true that heritiage listing forced abandonment of this plan?Myrtone (the strict Australian wikipedian)
- Certainly not in the way this article portrays it. To reach world heritage status, the NMR must have been nominated as such by the Indian government. There is no way that UNESCO can step in and list a place over the head of the sovereign government of the country in which that place is located. On the other hand this may be a case of the national government using world heritage status as a tool to override local state government decisions; I know that has certainly been the case in (eg) Australia. Or possible one government department playing off another. It isn't clear from the article whether Nitish Kumar was a minister in the Indian government or the Tamil Nadu government. -- Chris j wood 16:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] SI vs. Imperial
Is there a good reason why distances are given in kilometers but elevations are given in feet?
[edit] WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 18:56, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
