Romantic, popular with honeymooners, driven by love and devotion – as well as steam. Snaking through the South Indian jungle up to a hill station, once known as ‘Snooty Ooty’. Ivan the guard is married, Jenni the ticket inspector is still a bachelor – but he has a secret.
Director; Hugo Smith
I don’t suppose that the BBC was expecting Indian Hill Railways to be a break-out success, given that it has a title that robustly narrows its own viewer demographic . If you like India or railways you’ll know this is for you. At a pinch even liking hills might even be enough to get you tuning in. But anyone outside those narrow categories who takes a look should also find something to their liking here as well. Apart from the soap-operaish accounts of the railway employees’ lives, there are the unique operational problems of sub-continental railways. Who could not love a line where services may be delayed because of the wrong kind of elephant?