Nilgiri Mountain Railway is 1000mm gauge railway in TamilNadu. It was actually designed by british during the year 1908 which is the only rack railway in India. The trains that operate on this tracks are steam locomotives and diesel locomotives. Local citizens and travellers use these kind of transportation usually. The southern Railway performs the routine maintenance and control, divisions and departments of the Indian Railway are responsible for the operating , maintaining and reparing the moutain Trains. Travelling through the mountain train gives you the very good experience as it goes straight up the mountains lot of scenary can be seen while travelling to Ooty. Photographic lovers will delight themselves in taking the nature’s best photos. Most of the tourist prefer mountain train because it is very cheap and very comfortable to travel. There has been talks by the Government that new rails has to placed which are made up of steel for safety of the passengers.