COMING MONDAY, REGULAR BUT SPECIAL TRAIN SERVICE ON NMR..
(article in today's The New Indian Express:: P S SUNDAR)
NMR TRAIN SERVICES TO RESUME ON SEPT 6
Express News Service @ Coonoor
The Salem Division of Southern Railway announced on Friday evening
that train services in the Mettupalayam-Ooty section of Nilgiri
Mountain Railway (NMR) will resume on September 6.
The services will be operated as Fully Reserved Special trains but on
daily basis, a release said.
It further said that one pair of such trains will be operated between
Mettupalayam and Ooty and three pairs between Coonoor and Ooty.
The fare will be the same as it prevailed before the suspension of the
services for Covid-19 safety norms/lockdown.
After the suspension of the train services during the first wave of
Covid, train services were resumed on Dec 31, 2020 and operated till
April 20, 2021. They were suspended from April 21 because of the
second wave of Covid.
Now, they are being resumed with Covid-19 safety protocols. The
railways have asked passengers to maintain safety norms as also the
regulations issued by Nilgiris district administration for Covid and
ecology protection.
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