RailEnquiry

A recent meeting here discussed setting up of a railway station at Parvathipuram. Kanyakumari District Railway Users’ Association organised the meet, presided over by J. Helen Davidson, MP. The need for a new railway station at Parvathipuram and for moving the goods shed from Nagercoil junction to Nagercoil town were stressed. The MP said that the demand for the station has been there for a long time and hence requested the support of the State government and district administration in getting a railway station at Parvathipuram. The issues of transferring Tirunelveli-Nagercoil-Kanyakumari and Nagercoil-Thiruvanathapuram sections to Madurai division, improving the terminal facilities at Nagercoil by providing additional stabling lines and platforms, creating a new railway terminal at Kanyakumari were discussed.The meet also stressed for a new train service between Thiruvananthapuram and Velankanni via Nagercoil, extension of one of the three Mangalore-Thiruvananthapuram evening trains to Nagercoil, extension of the Tiruchi-Tirunelveli intercity to Nagercoil and to operate MEMU trains in the Kanyakumari-Kollam and Nagercoil from Thiruvananthapuram sections.