Thiruvananthapuram railway division

Thiruvananthapuram Railway Division (TVC) or Trivandrum Railway Division(TVC) is one of the six administrative divisions of the Southern Railway, Indian Railways. It has its headquarters at Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of the state of Kerala, India. Thiruvananthapuram Division was formed on 2 October 1979 which serves the eight districts of southern part of the Kerala, Kanniyakumari district and some parts of Tirunelveli District in 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,MavelikaraKarunagappally.

See also: Train numbering in India

Thiruvananthapuram Railway Division (TVC)
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

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 6

Tiruvalla, Kanniyakumari, Changanasseri, Varkala Sivagiri, Angamaly, Guruvayur

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. Passenger terminals are operational at Alappuzha, Ernakulam Jn, Thiruvananthapuram Central, Kollam Jn, Nagercoil Jn, Kanyakumari and Kochuveli.

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 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 2020-21 - Thiruvananthapuram Division" (PDF). Indian Railways. January 2022.
  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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