Thiruvananthapuram railway division
Thiruvananthapuram Railway Division is one of the six administrative divisions in Southern Railway zone of the Indian Railways. It has its headquarters at Thiruvananthapuram. It was formed on 2 October 1979, which serves the eight districts of southern part of Kerala, Kanyakumari district. With 104 stations in its territorial jurisdiction, it is the fourth largest out of six divisions in Southern Railway.
It is the southernmost railway division of India and manages 625 km of route track and 108 railway stations in the states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The major stations of the division are Thiruvananthapuram Central, Ernakulam Junction, Kollam Junction, Thrissur, Alappuzha, Kottayam, Ernakulam Town, Chengannur, Kayamkulam, Aluva, Nagercoil Junction, Kanniyakumari, Changanasseri, Tiruvalla, Kochuveli, Varkala, Mavelikara, Angamaly and Karunagappally.
Major routes
- Kollam–Thiruvananthapuram trunk line
- Thiruvananthapuram-Kanyakumari Line
- Thiruvananthapuram-Ernakulam
- Ernakulam-Alappuzha-Kayamkulam
- Ernakulam-Kottayam-Kayamkulam-Kollam line
- ICTT Vallarpadom Rail Link
- Sabari Railway line
- Balaramapuram-Vizhinjam Thiruvananthapuram Seaport
- Thakazhi-Thiruvalla
- Kottayam-Madurai-Ernakulam
- Airport line.
Stations
The list includes the stations under the Thiruvananthapuram railway division and their station category.| Category of station | No. of stations | Names of stations |
| NSG-1 Category | 0 | - |
| NSG-2 Category | 5 | ,,,, |
| NSG-3 Category | 10 | ,,,,,,,,, |
| NSG-4 Category | 5 | ,,,, |
| NSG-5 Category | 18 | Nagercoil town, etc. |
| NSG-6 Category | 27 | , etc. |
| HG 1 Category | 0 | - |
| HG 2 Category | 17 | Koratty Angadi, Divine Nagar |
| HG 3 Category | 18 | - |
| Total | 103 | - |
Terminal facilities
Thiruvananthapuram railway division has the credit of building and maintaining highest number of passenger terminals in any railway division within southern railway. Passenger terminals are operational atAlappuzha,
Ernakulam Jn,
Thiruvananthapuram Central,
Kollam Jn,
Nagercoil Jn, Kanyakumari
and Thiruvananthapuram North.
New passenger terminal is proposed at Nemom which serves as alternate satellite terminal station to the Thiruvananthapuram Central to ease the congestion other than the present Kochuveli.