Thiruvananthapuram railway division
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| Length | 625 km |
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Thiruvananthapuram Railway Division (TVC) or Trivandrum Railway Division(TVC) is one of the six administrative divisions of the
Major routes
- Kollam–Thiruvananthapuram trunk line
- Thiruvananthapuram-Kanyakumari Line
- Thiruvananthapuram-Ernakulam
- Ernakulam-Alappuzha-Kayamkulam
- Ernakulam-Kottayam-Kayamkulam line
- ICTT Vallarpadom Rail Link
- Sabari Railway line (Planned)
- Balaramapuram-Vizhinjam Trivandrum 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.[2]
| 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 | 6 | |
| NSG-5 Category | 20 | - |
| NSG-6 Category | 32 | - |
| HG 1 Category | 3 | Koratty Angadi, Nagarcoil town, Divine nagar |
| HG 2 Category | 18 | - |
| HG 3 Category | 12 | - |
| Total | 103 | - |
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,
New passenger terminal is proposed at Nemom which serves as alternate satellite terminal station to the Thiruvananthapuram Central to ease the congestion other than the present Kochuveli.
MEMU/suburban trains
A MEMU shed for
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.[4]
Traffic & passenger earnings details of railway stations
| Rank | Station name | District | Area | Total passengers (2022–23) |
Total ticket revenue (2022–23) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thiruvananthapuram Central | Thiruvananthapuram | South Kerala | 1,09,08,300 | ₹215,95,89,198 |
| 2 | Ernakulam Junction | Ernakulam | Central Kerala | 73,18,252 | ₹213,43,68,310 |
| 3 | Thrissur | Thrissur | Central Kerala | 58,71,287 | ₹134,61,98,702 |
| 4 | Ernakulam Town | Ernakulam | Central Kerala | 39,54,910 | ₹97,24,28,865 |
| 5 | Kollam Junction | Kollam | South Kerala | 67,04,147 | ₹84,83,80,845 |
| 6 | Nagercoil Junction | Kanniyakumari | South Tamil Nadu | 23,13,910 | ₹73,36,15,712 |
| 7 | Aluva | Ernakulam | Central Kerala | 34,64,482 | ₹72,72,33,064 |
| 8 | Kottayam | Kottayam | South Kerala | 32,63,160 | ₹67,77,89,875 |
| 9 | Chengannur | Alappuzha | South Kerala | 21,52,716 | ₹54,68,48,133 |
| 10 | Kayamkulam Junction | Alappuzha | South Kerala | 23,80,331 | ₹50,58,89,627[5][6] |
See also
- Southern Railway Zone
- Palakkad railway division
- Annual passenger earnings details of railway stations in Kerala
- Thiruvananthapuram Central railway station
References
- ^ https://164.100.77.150/bitstream/123456789/458102/1/PQ_85_20081973_S554_p45_p45.pdf
- ^ "Annual originating passengers and earnings for the year 2020-21 - Thiruvananthapuram Division" (PDF). Indian Railways. January 2022.
- ^ Kollam - Ernakulam Memu [1]
- ^ "Record freight earnings from Thiruvananthapuram division". TOI (Thiruvananthapuram ed.). 2 April 2018.
- ^ "Annual originating passengers & earnings for the year 2022-23 (Thiruvananthapuram Division)" (PDF). Southern Railway. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- ^ "Annual originating passengers & earnings for the year 2018-19 (Thiruvananthapuram Division)" (PDF). Southern Railway. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
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