Kerala, Chenkotta, Thenmala

Kerala Heritage meter gauge railway line linking the Kollam and Chenkotta Tamil Nadu will be closed the last train station Punalur puffing away today. Service was to end on Sunday, but later decided to drive today, thanks to the unprecedented number of passengers. 

 
Around the last centuy built during the reign of Prince Travancore Sree Tirunal Moolam engineers with experience in the British copy was served as an important commercial and cultural contact with the south of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. 

The line has fallen into a broad gauge. The Kollam-Punalur section was disbanded in 2007, when the conversion work is already underway. Railways intend to launch a new line for another two years. 

70 km of railway, which began work in 1902 and opened in 1904, reached 13 arched bridges and several tunnels through the mountains lush fields, including eco-tourism hub Thenmala Kerala.

Mountain biking is a crisis crossed by small rivers, creeks and streams, so it is also a tourist attraction. For decades, a line has been an important rail link between the capital of Kerala and Madras (Chennai), who was then the headquarters of South India. The song was also a commercial and cultural bridge with two than it had been so that the actors do a two-way traffic. 

It was also trains all along the line, people started to visit the great temples of Tamil Madurai, Palani, Thanjavur and Chidambaram as well as Christian and Muslim pilgrim centers like Velankanni church sanctuary, and Nagur Dargah.

Until the last days, the signal is installed British designers kept along the line. A large number of railway enthusiasts have already reached the Punalur enjoy the last trip down the track meter gauge before it enters into nostalgia. According to railway sources, some old train engine and components of signal must be maintained Railway Museum.