Thiruvananthapuram railway division

Thiruvananthapuram railway division 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, Changanasseri, Tiruvalla, Kochuveli, Varkala.

See also: Train numbering in India

Thiruvananthapuram railway division
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

Major routes
  • Kollam–Thiruvananthapuram trunk line
  • Thiruvananthapuram-Kanyakumari Line
  • Thiruvananthapuram-Ernakulam
  • 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 Kollam Junction, Ernakulam Town, 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. Passenger terminals are operational at Alappuzha, Ernakulam Jn, Thiruvananthapuram Central, Kollam Jn, Nagercoil Jn, and Kochuveli.

    New passenger terminal is proposed at 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
    RankStation nameDistrictAreaTotal passengers
    (2018–19)    		Total ticket revenue
    (2018–19)
    1Thiruvananthapuram CentralThiruvananthapuramSouth Kerala1,42,92,407₹1,93,14,10,719
    2Ernakulam JunctionErnakulamCentral Kerala93,39,152₹1,53,68,38,174
    3ThrissurThrissurCentral Kerala67,81,646₹1,08,50,11,153
    4Kollam JunctionKollamSouth Kerala84,99,151₹67,45,38,284
    5Ernakulam TownErnakulamCentral Kerala43,47,498₹70,36,73,117
    6AluvaErnakulamCentral Kerala42,20,114₹63,55,44,911
    7KottayamKottayamSouth Kerala44,96,320₹57,22,27,243
    8Nagercoil JunctionKanniyakumariSouth Tamil Nadu30,35,955₹54,88,20,540
    9ChengannurAlappuzhaSouth Kerala25,58,898₹46,51,06,837
    10Kayamkulam JunctionAlappuzhaSouth Kerala31,24,766₹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
    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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