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1900 - Works for Kollam–Sengottai metre-gauge railway line started to connect the city of Quilon with Madras; 1902 - Kollam–Sengottai Railway line works completed; 1904 - On 1 June, His Highness Moolam Thirunal Rama Varma of Travancore flagged off the first passenger train service on the Kollam–Sengottai railway line at Kollam railway station
It lies on Kollam–Sengottai branch line and Virudunagar–Sengottai line. [7] The Kollam–Shencottah railway line is the first railway line in 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 during 1904.
On 31 March 2018, the entire Kollam–Sengottai line was opened for passenger train service. [2] [3] The first passenger train was the Tambaram–Kollam–Tambaram special train (06027) that earned Rs 3.15 lakh by carrying 879 passengers against a capacity of 712. [4] The line provides a shorter route to Thiruvananthapuram via Kollam.
The Quilon-Sengottai railway line was inaugurated on 26 November 1904. The meter gauge line was later extended to Chala at Trivandrum via Paravur and Varkala and inaugurated on 4 January 1918 [13] Fund allotted for the extension of meter gauge railway line from Quilon to Ernakulam via Kottayam on 1952 and is inaugurated on 6 January 1958.
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]
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]
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 ...
Edamann railway station (station code:EDN) is an NSG–6 category Indian railway station in Madurai railway division of Southern Railway zone. [1] It serves Edamann, located on Kollam–Sengottai branch line in Kollam district of the Indian state of Kerala. [2] [3] [4] [5]