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Clouds Rising in the Sky
Clouds Rising in the Sky is professional film-maker Ian Walker's eyewitness record of the UNESCO inspection of
the Nilgiri Railway in September 2004. Conducted by Dr. Robert Lee of the University of Western Sydney, the outcome
was the listing of the NMR. Clouds shares some footage with The Ooty Rack, but offers a different perspective,
including more detail of the inspection, more of the workshops at Mettupalaiyam and Coonoor, plus traditional Toda
tribal dances at Ooty and a visit to the railway museum at Mysore. |
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COMPANION PRODUCT
The Ooty Rack
ar less well-known than the Darjeeling
railway, the Nilgiri Railway still rates among the world's best train rides. Listed as a World Heritage site in
2005, this metre gauge line was built in 1899. It is India's only rack railway. It is relatively long for a rack
line, and runs through very difficult country. The 21km (12.2 mile) Abt rack section,, from Mettupalaiyam to Coonoor,
is steam operated. Graded at 1 in 12½, climbs through the rugged "Blue Hills" of Southern India,
with stunning views out over the South Indian plains as it rises. Dramatic cliffs and waterfalls are interspersed
with tea and coffee plantations producing some of the world's finest brews. There is a daily service to the hill
stations of Coonoor and Ootacamund (or Ooty). There are 208 bridges, 16 tunnels and an unusual "half-tunnel".
The massive "X" class 0-8-2RT locomotives, built by Swiss Locomotive Works
(SLM) between 1914 and 1952, have special small low-pressure compound cylinders for the rack drive, working simple
on adhesion sections. The rack pistons work at twice the speed of the adhesion ones.
The long-awaited DVD version is 95 minutes long and incorporates material filmed in 1990, 1997, 1999 and 2004.
It shows trains operating over the full length of the line, includings sequences from lineside, showing the spectacular
scenery, on the train (much of it from the front platform) and on the footplate. The party conducting the UNESCO
World Heritage inspection in 2004 is shown at work.
Maps, stills, diagrams.
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THUMBNAILS
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faster loading, with possible minor loss of definition in some cases.
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