The Thiruvananthapuram–Nagercoil–Kanyakumari line is a line in the

Southern Railway zone Southern Railway (SR) is one of the eighteen zones of Indian Railways. It is headquartered at Chennai and operates across the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and the union territory of Puducherry. The origin of the Southern Rai ...

Indian Railways Indian Railways is a state-owned enterprise that is organised as a departmental undertaking of the Ministry of Railways (India), Ministry of Railways of the Government of India and operates India's national railway system. , it manages the fou ...

. It connects the cities

Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram ( ), also known as Trivandrum, is the Capital city, capital city of the Indian state of Kerala. As of 2011, the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation had a population of 957,730 over an area of 214.86 sq. km, making it the ...

and

Nagercoil Nagercoil, natively spelt as Nāgarkovil (, "Temple of the Nāgas", or Nagaraja-Temple), is a Municipal Corporation city and the administrative headquarters of Kanyakumari District in Tamil Nadu state, India. Situated close to the tip of the ...

. The railway opened on 15 April 1979. This is the southernmost section of Indian Railways. The terminus of the line is at Kanyakumari railway station.

History

In 1955, a survey for the railway line was sanctioned. It was completed in 1965, and construction began on 6 September 1972 with a ceremony with Prime Minister

Indira Gandhi Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (Given name, ''née'' Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician and stateswoman who served as the Prime Minister of India, prime minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 un ...

. On 15 April 1979, the line began to operate. The Thiruvananthapuram-Nagercoil-Kanyakumari railway line is fully electrified. Track doubling work is in progress and is expected to finished in 2022.

Stations

There are 16 railway stations along the line. The major stations are , , , , and . , the second satellite passenger terminal to the proposed , also comes under this section. The train line has seen financial gain, and its earnings are shown below. Stations in bold letters generated a minimum of 2 crore.

Rail traffic

Around 21 trains run on the line. More trains are expected to be introduced along the route with the completion of track doubling. The operating speed of trains running between Thiruvananthapuram to Nagercoil ranges from 80 to 100 km per hour. Trains operating from Kanyakumari to Nagercoil run from 75 to 90 km per hour.

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