Dindigul Junction railway station

Dindigul Junction railway station is an NSG–3 category Indian railway station in Madurai railway division of Southern Railway zone. The station serves the city of Dindigul, located in Dindigul district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

History

Dindigul was major junction point right from metre-gauge era. Metre-gauge routes to Coimbatore Junction railway, Tiruchirappalli Junction and Madurai Junction. In 1990s, the first broad-gauge line was established by Karur and Madurai broad-gauge track.
The line between Madurai and Dindigul was a metre-gauge and broad-gauge parallel lines. After gauge conversion between Chennai Egmore and Madurai, Palani route was the sole metre-gauge section in the entire western Tamil Nadu. Around 2012, Dindigul–Palani section was converted into broad gauge, Chennai Palani Express commenced its service. The Dindigul to Palani railway line was electrified in 2022.

Location and layout

The Dindigul Junction is located on the eastern side of the city adjacent to the city's SIDCO industrial estate. the station going to remodeled soon by southern railways and madurai division has announced the DPR tenders on southern railway site. The station bears the intersection of four branching railway lines and the next nearest train stations are:

Ambathurai railway station
Tamaraipadi railway station
Akkaraippatti railway station
Eriodu railway station

Madurai Airport is the nearest airport.

Lines

BG electrified Twin Single line towards Madurai
BG electrified double line towards Trichy
BG electrified single line towards Karur
BG electrified single line towards Pollachi

Performance and earnings

For the FY 2022–23, the annual earnings of the station was and daily earnings was. For the same financial year, the annual passenger count was 2,011,715 and daily count was 5,512. While, the footfall per day was recorded as 11,291.

New Lines in Proposal

Dindigul-Karaikudi new BG line: Reconnaissance Engineering cum Traffic Survey for a new BG line between Dindigul and Karaikkudi via Natham and Thirupattur was conducted and Survey Report was sent to Railway Board on 06.07.2015. This project was shelved by Railway Board.