Starting Republic Day, the famed Neral-Matheran toy train will ply on the entire 21 km distance after a gap of nearly 18 months, a Central Railway official said here on Thursday. The train climbs up from Neral town to Matheran. It is the nearest cool hill-station to Mumbai and is ranked Asia's only -- and among a handful worldwide -- vehicle-free zones, popular with tourists round the year. The services on this route stopped since May 2016 after a couple of derailments in that year.