2 hurt as toy train engine boiler bursts

The Nilgiris Mountain Railway train with six coaches and nearly 120 passengers, which left Mettupalayam for Udhagamandalam around 7 am this morning, suddenly came to a halt on a bridge at Hillgrove, after it developed a snag in the engine, following a misfire, Railway sources said. As one of the loco pilots tried to increase the pressure, hot water from the radiator splashed on them. Bhoopathi and Satheesh suffered burns in the incident, they said.

Another engine and two coaches have been requisitioned from Coonoor to take the stranded passengers and to shift the injured drivers to hospital, they said.