Palakkad railway division

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Palakkad railway division
Overview
Headquarters Palakkad, Kerala, India
Locale Kerala
Tamil Nadu
Puducherry
Karnataka
Dates of operationAugust 31, 1956;68 years ago (1956-08-31)–
Technical
Track gauge 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in)
Electrification 25 kV AC 50 Hz
Length577 kilometres (359 mi)

Palakkad railway division (formerly Olavakkod railway division) is one of the six administrative divisions of the Southern Railway zone of Indian Railways. It is headquartered at city of Palakkad, Kerala. It is the smallest railway division in Southern Railway. It was formed by dissolving the Podanur division. Managing 588 route kilometers of track in the states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Mahé (in the Union Territory of Puducherry), it is one of the oldest railway divisions in India and had a route connectivity of nearly 1,247 km before the formation of current Thiruvananthapuram and Salem divisions. The terminal facility of Palakkad division is situated in Shoranur Junction & Mangalore Central of Karnataka state.

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History

Hon'ble Deputy Railway Minister Shri Alagesan announce in parliament "It has been decided to introduce the divisional system on the Southern Railway too, and there will be one headquarter in the Kerala area in which the hon. Member is interested, and that will be at Olavakot. [1] What is today the Palakkad railway division was formed on 31 August 1956 as the fifth division of the Southern Railway, the first Railway Zone of the newly formed Indian Railways [2] It was named Olavakkod railway division at the time because it was headquartered at the railway junction situated at Olavakkod a suburb of the city, which was later renamed to Palakkad Junction. At the time of its formation, it managed the broad-gauge trunk line from Jolarpet in Vellore district, Tamil Nadu to Mangalore in Karnataka via Coimbatore and Shoranur, including the Nilgiri Mountain Railway, the Shoranur–Cochin Harbor Terminus line and the Shoranur–Nilambur Road branch line, giving it a total of 1,247 km of route kilometers. In 1979, the Shoranur–CHTS line was delinked to create the new Thiruvananthapuram railway division, reducing trackage of the division to 1132 km. [3] Most of Palakkad division was made double track in the three following decades. In 2007, the Palakkad division was cut in half as 623 km of route track from Jolarpettai to Podanur, including the Coimbatore region and the NMR were removed from Palakkad division to create the Salem division, reducing its route kilometers to 577. At this time 79 km of Meter Gauge track of the Palakkad Town - Pollachi and Pollachi - Podanur lines were granted to Palakkad as a consolation, making its total trackage to 588 km. [4]

Timeline

Area covered

The Palakkad division starts just after Podanur Junction and proceeds westwards towards Kerala. The double track line splits into two single track sections widely spaced apart after the Ettimadai station and pass through the jungles of the Palakkad Gap. The two tracks briefly reunite at the Walayar station, and then again split to join at Kanjikode. At Palakkad junction, the track to Palakkad Town and Pollachi branch off to the left. The main line continues onwards to Shoranur and the division jurisdiction ends just after the bridge across the Bharathappuzha. Two single lines connect Shoranur Junction to this mainline. From Shoranur the branch line to Nilambur branches off into the teak forests on the right, while the mainline continues on north and runs past Tirur, Kozhikode, Kannur and Kasargod, and crosses the Karnataka border just before Ullal to enter the Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka. Just after the bridge across the Netravati River, 15 kilometers from the Kerala–Karnataka border, the lines to the Mangalore Central terminus branch off to the left. The mainline continues past Mangalore Junction (Kankanady) and past the Padil and Thokur station triangles to end at the Panambur New Mangalore port and its yards and sidings. [7]

The Mangalore area is unique for its complicated jurisdictional interchanges between zones and divisions. The Padil triangle including the station situated on the eastern side of the triangle come wholly under SR/PGT, and the South Western Railway (Mysore division) starts just a couple of meters after the Padil station and continues on eastwards towards Hassan and Mysore as the MHRDL line. Just a few kilometers north of Padil lies the Thokur triangle, which is again the interchange point between the Konkan Railway and the Southern Railway, but the southern line of the triangle belongs to SR/PGT while the two connecting lines to Konkan Railway. Palakkad division's northernmost point of jurisdiction lies here, just short of the Thokur station.

Stations

The list includes the stations under the Palakkad railway division and their station category. [8] [9]

Category of stationNo. of stationsNames of stations
NSG-1 Category0-
NSG-2 Category4 Kozhikode,

Palakkad Junction, Mangalore Central, Kannur

NSG-3 Category5

Shoranur Junction, Mangalore Junction, Kasaragod, Tirur, Payyannur, Quilandy, ottappalam Thalassery, Vadakara

NSG-4 Category6 Kanhangad, Payyanur,

Kuttippuram

NSG-5 Category-

parappanangadi,

NSG-6 Category--
HG 1 Category--
HG 2 Category--
HG 3 Category--
Total--

Stations closed for Passengers - Bharathapuzha

Traffic & passenger earnings details of railway stations

RankStation nameDistrictAreaCategoryTotal passengers
(2023–24)		Total ticket revenue
(2023–24)
1 Kozhikode KozhikkodeNorth KeralaNSG-21,14,51,049₹190,53,86,518
2 Kannur KannurNorth KeralaNSG-271,89,311₹121,62,73,168
3 Palakkad Junction PalakkadCentral KeralaNSG-247,61,112₹119,34,53,387
4 Mangalore Central Dakshina KannadaSouth KarnatakaNSG-249,54,844₹110,32,38,790
5 Mangalore Junction Dakshina KannadaSouth KarnatakaNSG-312,25,186₹64,61,89,943
6 Shoranur Junction PalakkadCentral KeralaNSG-335,11,138₹59,30,52,380
7 Kasaragod KasaragodNorth KeralaNSG-328,70,813₹49,70,41,198
8 Thalassery KannurNorth KeralaNSG-343,54,693₹40,95,59,593
9 Tirur MalappuramNorth KeralaNSG-335,15,286₹32,35,68,672
10 Vadakara KozhikkodeNorth KeralaNSG-343,07,961₹30,81,57,193

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  9. ↑ "PASSENGER AMENITIES - CRITERIA= For Categorisation Of Stations" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
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