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The Government decided to locate the headquarters of the division, which includes Tinnevely also, at Madurai. [4] The Madurai railway division was formed in 1956, comprising the Ernakulam-Thiruvananthapuram line, Thiruvananthapuram-Nagercoil-Tirunelveli-Madurai line, Kollam-Sengottai-Tirunelveli line, Rameswaram-Manamadurai-Madurai line, Manamadurai-Karaikudi-Tiruchirappalli line, Madurai ...
Madurai is a city serving as the gateway to southern Tamil Nadu and is the second largest city in the state. It is also the headquarters of the Madurai railway division, which is the largest railway division of the southern Railway zone in India. The city has several train stations, of which the Madurai Junction is the most important.
Madurai–Melur–Tirupattur–Karaikudi new BG line: As sanctioned by Railway Board in the year 2007–08, Survey was taken & the report has been submitted to Railway Board on 29 July 2008. Then updating survey was sanctioned in the year 2013–14 and the survey report was submitted to Railway board on 27 November 2014.
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]
Tenkasi Junction railway station; Thenmala railway station; Tiruchchuli Railway station; Tiruchendur railway station; Tirunelveli Junction railway station; Tirunelveli–Tiruchendur line; Tiruparankundram railway station; Tiruttangal railway station; Tuti-Melur railway station; Tuticorin railway station
The station is named after the Tamil freedom fighter Vanchinathan and was the site [4] of assassination of the British Collector, Robert Ashe.Today the station is a significant station in the Madurai railway division of the Southern Railway Zone, one of the six divisions established within the Southern Railway zone others being Chennai, Tiruchchirappalli, Salem, Palakkad and Thiruvananthapuram.
Usilampatti railway station was inaugurated together with the Madurai–Bodinayakkanur 90 km branch line in 20 November 1928 () as metre-gauge railway by the Madras Provincial revenue member Norman Marjoribanks. [5] Later in 1942, during the Second World War, the line was closed and the tracks were removed.
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