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The Quilon–Shencottah railway line was the first railway line in the erstwhile Travancore state and is more than a century old. The Kollam–Sengottai section is part of the Kollam – Chennai metre-gauge rail route commissioned by the British in 1904.
The Aryankavu–Puliyara (Kottavasal) tunnel, also known as the "Aryankavu tunnel", is a colonial-era railway tunnel located in the southern Western Ghats on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border in India. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This 891.70 meter long tunnel is a section of the Kollam-Sengottai railway line , which was the first line in the former Travancore ...
First Railway service in erstwhile Travancore was started on 1904 November 26. It was Sengottai - Punalur Metre-gauge railway. Kollam district has the highest number of operational railway stations (25) in Kerala, while Palakkad district has the highest number of stations (28). Shoranur Junction(SRR) is the largest railway station in the state. [3]
1902 - Kollam–Sengottai Railway line works completed; 1904 - On 1 June, Kollam-Punalur line was opened [9] 1904 - On 26 November, Passenger train service started through Kollam–Sengottai Railway line; 1918 - On 4 January, The Meter gauge line till Kollam was extended up to Chala in Thiruvananthapuram [10]
The Chennai Egmore–Kollam Junction Express (16101/16102, earlier known as the Quilon Mail) is a daily train that runs between Chennai Egmore and Kollam Junction in India. It is the successor of 115-year-old Quilon Mail , which ran once upon a time in metre-gauge lines between Madras and Quilon.
The railway line was built jointly by South Indian railway, Travancore state and the Madras Presidency. Kollam's (Anglicized Quilon) railway station was built in 1904 by Sree Moolam Tirunal Rama Varma, Maharaja of Travancore. It was the ruler's desire to create a rail link between Quilon, the then commercial capital of his State and Madras. [12]
The first idea of rail link from Tirunelveli to Kollam which was the trading capital of the Travancore Kingdom was conceived in 1873. The line was sanctioned by the Madras Presidency in 1899 and the survey was completed in 1900.The railway line was built jointly by South Indian railway, Travancore state and Madras Presidency.It was the ruler's desire to create a rail link between Kollam, the ...
Kilikollur railway station (station code:KLQ) is an NSG–6 category Indian railway station in Madurai railway division of Southern Railway zone, serving the city of Kollam. [1] The station is located on Kollam–Punalur section in Kollam district of the Indian state of Kerala .