Thiruvananthapuram railway division

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Thiruvananthapuram railway division
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Thiruvananthapuram Central Station
Overview
HeadquartersThiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
LocaleKerala, Tamil Nadu
Dates of operation2 October 1979 (1979-10-02)–
Technical
Track gauge1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in)
Previous gauge1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)
Electrification25 kV AC 50 Hz
Length625 km

Thiruvananthapuram railway division (TVC) is one of the six administrative divisions of the Southern Railway Zone of the Indian Railways. It has its headquarters at Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of the state of Kerala and It is 5th largest railway division in Southern Railway. Thiruvananthapuram Division, formed on 2 October 1979, serves eight districts of the southern part of the Kerala state and some parts of Kanniyakumari and Tirunelveli District of Tamil Nadu. With 104 stations in its territorial jurisdiction, it is the fourth largest out of six divisions in Southern Railway. It is the southernmost railway division of India and manages 625 km of route track and 108 railway stations in the states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The major stations of the division are Thiruvananthapuram Central, Ernakulam Junction, Kollam Junction, Thrissur, Kottayam, Ernakulam Town, Chengannur, Kayamkulam, Aluva, Nagercoil Junction, Kanniyakumari, Alappuzha, Tiruvalla, Kochuveli, Varkala.

Major routes[]

  • Kollam–Thiruvananthapuram trunk line
  • Thiruvananthapuram-Kanyakumari Line
  • Ernakulam-Alappuzha-Kayamkulam-Kollam
  • Ernakulam-Kottayam-Kayamkulam-Kollam
  • Sabari Railway line (Planned)
  • Balaramapuram-Vizhinjam seaport (Planned)
  • Thakazhi-Thiruvalla (Project Abandoned)
  • Kottayam-Madurai-Ernakulam(Thripunithura-Muvattupuzha,Idukki.Project abandoned due to lack of interest)
  • Airport line (Connecting Ernakulam Junction with the International Airport through a new halt station. The foundation stone was laid in 2010. Project abandoned due to lack of interest and land acquisition problems).

Stations[]

The list includes the stations under the Thiruvananthapuram railway division and their station category.[1]

Category of station No. of stations Names of stations
NSG-1 Category 0 -
NSG-2 Category 3 Trivandrum Central, Ernakulam Junction, Thrissur
NSG-3 Category 9 Ernakulam Town, Kollam Junction, Aluva, Kottayam, Chengannur, Nagercoil Junction, Kayamkulam Junction, Alappuzha, Kochuveli
NSG-4 Category 5

Tiruvalla, Kanniyakumari, Changanasseri, Varkala Sivagiri, Angamaly

NSG-5 Category - -
NSG-6 Category - -
HG 1 Category - -
HG 2 Category - -
HG 3 Category - -
Total - -

Terminal facilities[]

Thiruvananthapuram railway division has the credit of building and maintaining highest number of passenger terminals in any railway division within southern railway.[citation needed] Passenger terminals are operational at Alappuzha, Ernakulam Jn, Thiruvananthapuram Central, Kollam Jn, Nagercoil Jn, and Kochuveli.

New passenger terminals are proposed at Kochi Central(Ponnurunni), Kochuveli, and Nemom.

MEMU/suburban trains[]

A MEMU train near Kollam MEMU Shed

A MEMU shed for Kollam was proposed in 2008's Indian Railway Budget. Kollam MEMU CarShed was formally commissioned on 1 December 2013. Currently the MEMU trains runs between Kollam Junction to Greater Cochin region via Kottayam and via Alappuzha. The fastest three phase ICF Memu cars are plying in this section.[2] Kollam MEMU Shed is the second MEMU Shed in Kerala, which is equipped with most modern facilities. There was a plan initially to conduct suburban railway between Trivandrum Central to Chengannur and Haripad at regular intervals. But due to lack of dedicated lines and automated signalling system on the state the project was abandoned

Freight traffic[]

The freight traffic marked an all-time high record with Rs 466.41 crore earnings in the financial year 2017-2018 and there is a hike of Rs 115.51 crore, when compared to the freight earnings in previous year. Kochi Refineries shared the highest freight traffic followed by FACT Kochi.[3]

Traffic & passenger earnings details of railway stations[]

Rank Station name District Area Total passengers
(2018–19)		 Total ticket revenue
(2018–19)
1 Thiruvananthapuram Central Thiruvananthapuram South Kerala 1,42,92,407 ₹1,93,14,10,719
2 Ernakulam Junction Ernakulam Central Kerala 93,39,152 ₹1,53,68,38,174
3 Thrissur Thrissur Central Kerala 67,81,646 ₹1,08,50,11,153
4 Ernakulam Town Ernakulam Central Kerala 43,47,498 ₹66,70,06,491
5 Kollam Junction Kollam South Kerala 84,99,151 ₹67,45,38,284
6 Aluva Ernakulam Central Kerala 42,20,114 ₹63,55,44,911
7 Kottayam Kottayam South Kerala 44,96,320 ₹57,22,27,243
8 Nagercoil Junction Kanniyakumari South Tamil Nadu 26,92,661 ₹50,68,49,949
9 Varkala Trivandrum South Kerala 25,58,898 ₹46,51,06,837
10 Kayamkulam Junction Alappuzha South Kerala 31,24,766 ₹35,49,84,400[4][5]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Annual originating passengers and earnings for the year 2018-19 - Thiruvananthapuram Division" (PDF). Indian Railways. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  2. ^ Kollam - Ernakulam Memu [1]
  3. ^ "Record freight earnings from Thiruvananthapuram division". TOI (Thiruvananthapuram ed.). 2 April 2018.
  4. ^ "Annual originating passengers & earnings for the year 2018-19 (Thiruvananthapuram Division)" (PDF). Southern Railway. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  5. ^ "Annual originating passengers & earnings for the year 2017-18 (Palakkad Division)" (PDF). Southern Railway. Retrieved 10 December 2019.

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