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Mettupalaiyam
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The station at this town, opened 1873, was the terminus of the Mettupalaiyam Branch Line which was a branch from Podanur Junction on the Madras Railway which became the South Indian Railway broad gauge (BG) 'Jalarpet-Mangalore Mainline'
Here there was a connection to the Nilgiri Mountain Railway for onward travel to Ootacamund
See Imperial Gazetteer Volume 3 Page 397