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Nilgiri Mountain Railway

Heritage rail line in India
Organization railway_line Q463735
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Summary

Nilgiri Mountain Railway is a railway line[1]. It ranks in the top 0.98% of railway line entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,099 views/month, #31 of 3,177).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Tamil Nadu[3]
  • Country: India[4]
  • Instance of: narrow-gauge railway[5], mountain railway[6], heritage railway[7]
  • Owned by: Indian Railways[8]
  • Part of: Mountain Railways of India[9]
  • Commons category: Nilgiri Mountain Railway[10]
  • Official website: https://www.irctctourism.com/gallery/nilgiri.html[11]
  • Track gauge: 1000 mm track gauge[12]
  • Heritage designation: part of UNESCO World Heritage Site[13]
  • Date of official opening: October 15, 1908[14]
  • Length: 46 km[15]
  • Area: 4.59 ha[16], 500 ha[17]
  • Maximum gradient: 83 per mille[18]
  • State of use: in use[19]
  • Category for the view from the item: Q141774092[20]
  • Rack system: Abt rack system[21]
  • P14541: 15fjqI[22]

Why It Matters

Nilgiri Mountain Railway has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

India

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14h ago · Pi bot bot · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['as', 'bn', 'commons', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'gu', 'ha', 'he', 'h
    Sitelink count → 32
    Category for the view from the item → Q141774092
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Category for the view from the item: Q141774092, Setting P8933 value"
  2. 5w ago · Bouzinac · 2026-09-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    State of use → in use
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/53597|batch #53597]]: probably due to their P402"
  3. 5w ago · Ramjit Tudu · 2026-09-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||sat */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/53247|batch #53247]]: rslsat"
  4. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    Length → {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+46'}
    Owned by → —
    Owned by → Indian Railways
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
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