Kayamkulam Junction railway station
Kayamkulam Junction railway station is an NSG–3 category Indian railway station in Thiruvananthapuram railway division of Southern Railway zone. It is a railway station in Kerala, located at Alappuzha district. It is an NSG 3 category station. It stands at the junction of three lines- south towards Thiruvananthapuram via Kollam, north towards Ernakulam via and north-east towards Ernakulam Junction/Ernakulam Town via. The station is located from Kayamkulam town, near Kayamkulam–Punalur Road. In 2018, the rail wi-fi broad-band connection has been introduced in Kayamkulam.
History
Kayamkulam rail link came into existence in 1958 when Kollam– railway line was inaugurated. The railway station was upgraded to a junction station in 1992 when the rail link via to Ernakulam was inaugurated.Layout
This station has five platforms and six tracks to handle long and short-distance trains and goods trains.Platforms 1 and 2 handles the trains towards the North. The lines via both sides meet up at Ernakulam Junction station but the line via Kottayam diverges to the Northern side about a kilometer away before the line loops over to meet the line from Alappuzha at Ernakulam Junction. This is to decongest the railway traffic at Ernakulam - the trains via Alappuzha stops at Ernakulam Junction but not Ernakulam Town and the trains via Kottayam stops at Ernakulam Town by taking the diverging line without entering Ernakulam Junction except a few number of trains that stop at both the North and South stations.
Platforms 3 & 4 handles the trains running towards the Southern side. PF 3 handles trains from Ernakulam via Alappuzha and the PF 4 for trains from Ernakulam via Kottayam.
Platform 5 is reserved for the passengers that originates from Kayamkulam and terminates at Ernakulam Junction. The sixth track adjacent to the fifth track of PF 5 is used for goods trains to load and unload goods at Kayamkulam.
Services
The train services that originate from Kayamkulam are the four passengers of which three terminate at Ernakulam and one at Alappuzha.56380 is a daily passenger via Alappuzha that starts from Kayamkulam at 8:20 am and reaches Ernakulam at 10:50 am.
56382 is a daily passenger via Alappuzha that starts from Kayamkulam at 12:55 pm and reaches Ernakulam at 3:30 pm.
56388 is a daily passenger via Kottayam that starts from Kayamkulam at 4:30 pm and reaches Ernakulam at 7:45 pm.
56378 is a daily passenger that starts from Kayamkulam at 10:20 pm and reaches Alappuzha at 11:30 pm.