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Vallathol Nagar railway station
Vallathol Nagar
railway station
falls between
Shoranur Junction
and
Mullurkara railway station
in the
Shoranur-Cochin Harbour section
of
Thrissur District
. Vallathol Nagar railway
station
is
operated by
the Chennai-headquartered
Southern Railways
of the
Indian Railways
. It is the
base station
for
Kerala Kalamandalam
and last station in the
Thiruvananthapuram railway division
.
History
The station
is named after
Vallathol Narayana Menon
or
popularly
known as
Mahakavi Vallathol
, Kerala’s
greatest
poet
in
Malayalam language
. Vallathol
Narayana
Menon
was instrumental in
establishing
the
Kerala
Kalamandalam
in
Cheruthuruthi
, a major centre for
learning
Indian
performing arts
, especially those that developed in Kerala.