It averages 6.5 miles [10.4 km] per hour and is perhaps the slowest train in India. But what a journey this is, through the tea and coffee estates of the mountains up to Coonoor at 5,617 feet [1,712 m]!
त्यामुळे, घोड्यावर जाण्यापेक्षा किंवा पालखीत बसून जाण्यापेक्षा हा प्रवास लवकर करता येऊ लागला.