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 stationsin 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, Chengannur, Kayamkulam, Aluva, Nagercoil Junction,Kanniyakumari, Alappuzha, Tiruvalla, Kochuveli and Varkala.

Major routes

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 terminals are proposed at
Kanyakumari,
Kottayam,
and Nemom.

MEMU/suburban trains

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. Kollam MEMU Shed is the largest MEMU Shed in Kerala, which is equipped with most modern facilities.

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.

Traffic & passenger earnings details of railway stations