Coimbatore Suburban Railway

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Coimbatore Broad Gauge Metro & Suburban Railway [1] [2]
Overview
Other name(s)Kovai suburban rail
Native nameகோயம்புத்தூர் புறநகர் மின்சாரத் தொடர்வண்டி சேவை
StatusPlanned
Owner Indian Railways
Locale Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
Termini Coimbatore Junction
Connecting linesMettupalayam line, Pollachi line, Palakkad line, Tiruppur line, Kovai circular line. [3]
Service
Typesuburban rail
Services5 routes
Operator(s) Southern Railway
Depot(s)Coimbatore
Technical
Number of tracksSingle, Double
Track gauge 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge
Old gaugeMetre gauge
Electrification 25 kV, 50 Hz AC through overhead catenary
Operating speed80 Kmph
Signalling Railway Signalling
Route map
Coimbatore circular railway.jpg

Coimbatore Broad Gauge Metro Railway Cum Coimbatore Suburban Railway or Kovai Metro Cum Suburban Railway is a Broad Gauge Metro Cum Suburban railway planned for Coimbatore city. [4] The circular railway line will help run through Coimbatore Junction, Podanur, Vellalore, Irugur, Singanallur, Pilamedu and Coimbatore North. This will certainly help decongest the city roads since this circular line passes through the main parts of Coimbatore city and ends within the coimbatore city limits, so this circular line is an urban line. Restoration of old Main Line (Which was Broad Gauge Vellore Station) Nanjundapuram Railway link line lengths 1 km will help plan circular urban electric train track. A senior official [4] with the Salem division says, "if the revival of an old line can bring about so many benefits, it can be considered". [5] However, Implementation of this project gets delayed due to the Proposed Coimbatore Metro.

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Routes

These are the 5 routes.

  1. Coimbatore Jn – Mettupalayam
  2. Coimbatore Jn. – Pollachi Jn.
  3. Coimbatore Jn – Tiruppur
  4. Coimbatore Jn – Palakkad Jn
  5. Coimbatore Jn – Irugur Jn – Podanur In – Coimbatore Jn (Proposed for Both Metro and Mainline Routes)(circular line as well as urban line). [6] [7]

Local passenger trains from Coimbatore Junction is operating on all the above mentioned sub urban routes except the Coimbatore Jn – Irugur Jn – Coimbatore Jn (circular line as well as urban line). [8]

Suburban stations

The other stations serving Coimbatore include Coimbatore North Junction (CBF), Podanur Junction (PTJ), Irugur Junction (IGU), Madukkarai (MDKI), Pilamedu (PLMD), Singanallur (SHI), Sulur Road (SUU), [9] Periyanaickenpalayam railway station (PKU) and Somanur (SNO). [10] Other stations like Chettipalayam, Urumandampalayam, Veerapandi and Pudupalayam are defunct. The people have asked to reopen the stations., [11] The 1 km long Nanjundapuram Railway link line became completely defunct and was dismantled soon after the Coimbatore North – Irugur line was put to use.

Restoration of this Nanjundapuram Railway link line will help plan circular suburban electric train track connecting major train stations in the outskirts of Coimbatore like Mettupalayam, Irugur, Podanur, Pollachi etc to ease growing peripheral traffic. Reopening this defunct Nanjundapuram Railway line & Station can benefit residents from Nanjundapuram, Ramanathapuram, Redfields, Puliakulam, Sowripalayam, Udayampalayam, Singanallur, Varadarajapuram, Uppilipalayam and Ondipudur areas of Coimbatore for train connections to onward destinations. Irugur via Nanjundapuram: This bye-pass connection from Irugur – Podanur line to Coimbatore bypassing Podanur had been laid long back at a time when Coimbatore was connected only from Podanur as a branch from Irugur–Podanur–Shoranur line. It was done to facilitate trains from Erode side to directly go to Coimbatore. However, this connection became superfluous when Coimbatore was directly connected from Irugur side via Pilamedu and Coimbatore North in 1953, and accordingly, this link line was removed at that time. Since the doubling work between Irugur–Coimbatore section is in progress, these double lines will be utilised for suburban traffic if required This is the poignant backdrop of Nanjundapuram Railway Station now defunct. [12]

List of railway stations

List of railway stations in Coimbatore
NoNameNative NameStation Code
1 Coimbatore Junction கோயம்புத்தூர் சந்திப்புCBE
2 Podanur Junction போத்தனூர் சந்திப்புPTJ
3 Coimbatore North Junction கோயம்புத்தூர் வடக்கு சந்திப்புCBF
4 Pilamedu பீளமேடுPLMD
5 Singanallur சிங்காநல்லூர்SHI
6 Irugur Junction இருகூர் சந்திப்புIGU
7 Periyanaickenpalayam பெரியநாயக்கன்பாளையம்PKM
8 Madukkarai மதுக்கரைMDKI
9 Somanur சோமனூர்SNO
10 Sulur Road சூலூர் ரோடுSUU
11 Thudiyalur துடியலூர்TDE
12 Karamadai காரமடைKAY
13 Ettimadai எட்டிமடைETMD
14 Kinathukadavu கிணத்துக்கடவுCNV
15 Pollachi Junction பொள்ளாச்சிPOY [13]
16 Anaimalai Road ஆனைமலைANM [14]
17 Gomangalam கோமங்கலம்GMGM [15]
18 Kallar கல்லார்QLR [16]
19 Mettupalayam மேட்டுப்பாளையம்MTP [16]
20 Adderley அடர்லிADY [16]

Coimbatore Broad Gauge Metro (Circular Suburban) Railway[ citation needed ] [17] [18]

List of closed railway stations

List of Defunct and closed railway stations in Coimbatore [19] [20] [16]
No.Name
1 Chettipalayam (CIM) [21] [22]
2Urumandampalayam (URP)
3Veerapandi (VRPT)
4Pudupalayam
5Nallatipalayam (NLPM) [23]
6Kovilpalayam (CVM) [24]
7Pulankinar (PLKR) [25] [20] [26] [27] [28] [29]
8Tippampatti (TPMP) [30]
9Kallar (QLR/) [31] [32]
10Tamaraikulam
11Kurumbapalayam (KMBP) [33]
12Vellalore Road [33]
13Old Singanallur(SHI) [33]
14Nallampalayam/Koundempalayam/Goundampalayam
15NarasimhaNaikenPALAYAM HALT
16Ondipudur HALT

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