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The 1964 Rameswaram cyclone (also known as the Dhanushkodi cyclone) was regarded as one of the most powerful storms to ever strike India on record. [1] The system was first identified as an area of low pressure over the Andaman Sea on December 15. Following interaction with a tropical wave, it began to develop and became a depression by ...
After 21 December 1964, it moved westwards, almost in a straight line, at the rate of 400 to 550 kilometres (250 to 340 mi) per day. On 22 December, it crossed Vavuniya in Sri Lanka and made landfall at Dhanushkodi on the night of 22–23 December 1964. Estimated wind velocity was 280 kilometres per hour (170 mph) and tidal waves were 7 metres ...
May 31 – Italy – Voghera train crash; a freight train collided with a passenger train at Voghera railway station, Lombardy, killing 63 and injuring 40. [30] June 3 – United Kingdom – Lincoln rail crash: The Night Scotsman express passenger train derailed at Lincoln due to excessive speed on a curve, killing nine people and injuring 49. [39]
Dhanushkodi railway station is an abandoned railway station in Tamil Nadu, India. It was abandoned during the 1964 Rameswaram cyclone. [1] [2] It is one of the two branch lines gets diverted from Pamban Junction one is Pamban Junction–Rameswaram Branch line and the other is Pamban Junction–Dhanushkodi Branch line. A train called Boat mail ...
23 December 1964 – The Pamban-Dhanuskodi passenger train was washed away during the Rameswaram cyclone, killing over 126 passengers on board. [ 45 ] 19 June 1965 – A freight train collided with a train carrying railway workers about 800 km (500 mi) from Bombay, killing 15.
[115] [116] Hardest hit was the Indian town of Dhanushkodi, on Rameswaram Island. [117] Located in the Tamil Nadu state, Dhanushkodi had 2,000 residents and had been "a bustling coastal town with pilgrims, travellers, fishermen, tourists and others" and the site of the Hindu temple of Vinayaka; it would remain abandoned more than 50 years later.
Pamban Bridge (Tamil:, romanised: pāmban) was a railway bridge that connected the town of Rameswaram on Pamban Island with Mandapam in mainland India. Opened on 24 February 1914, it was India's first sea bridge, and was the longest sea bridge in India until the opening of the Bandra–Worli Sea Link in 2010.
Dhanushkodi Beach lies on the tip of the Rameswaram island. [1] In this beach, the Bay of Bengal and Gulf of Mannar Sea of Indian Ocean merge which is known as Arichal Munai in Tamil. [ 2 ] Before 1964, Dhanushkodi was a busy, crowded city.