Nagercoil Junction railway station is a railway junction in Kanyakumari district in the state of Tamil Nadu. Trivandrum-Nagercoil-Kanniyakumari and Tirunelveli-Nagercoil construction projects were inaugurated by the then Prime minister Mrs.Indira Gandhi on 6 September 1972. The Trivandrum-Nagercoil-Kanniyakumari line was opened on 15 April 1979. Nagercoil Junction became operational on 15 April 1979. The rail-link to Kanyakumari was established only in 1979, mainly because establishing a rail line through the district posed some challenges for the rail department and took a lot of efforts, especially the western line. The western line runs through some huge artificial ground-elevations and a number of hill-tunnels. Kanyakumari District is connected through direct train services with all leading metropolitan cities in India like New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and Kolkata. The Chennai-Nagercoil sector is the largest profit making line in south India, which brought in ₹346 crore (US$51 million) in 2011
The station has four platforms connecting the Kanyakumari—Trivandrum line (West Coast Line) of the Thiruvananthapuram railway division to the Chennai – Madurai – Nagercoil line
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Line:
- Tirunelveli
- Trivandrum
- Kanyakumar
About Nagercoil:
Nagercoil is a town in the southernmost Indian state of Tamil Nadu and a municipality and administrative headquarters of Kanyakumari District. The city is situated close to the tip of the Indian peninsula, locked with the Western Ghats on all sides It was briefly part of the erstwhile Travancore state, till almost a decade after India’s Independence from Britain in 1947. In 1956, it was merged with Tamil Nadu. In its earlier days, the town and its surroundings were known as Nanjilnadu. Nagercoil holds a number of educational institutions, hospitals, offices and industries. It is also the hub of industrial and commercial activity in the district, and a fertile agricultural area that produces paddy. The minerals ilmenite and monazite are mined there. The land is surrounded by hills and lush green paddy fields. It is also known for different varieties of bananas. Nagercoil is a land of great traditional and cultural significance.
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Culture and traditional cuisine
Diwali is the most celebrated festival followed by pongal. Christmas is also celebrated in Nagercoil as the town has a higher percentage of Christians. Onam is another festival widely celebrated among the Malayalam-speaking population by drawing the `atha poo’ (flower decoration) in the floor
Some TRains are originafe passesr throug Nagercoil Junction:
12666: Kanyakumari Howrah Express
16606: Ernad Express
16861: Pondicherry – Kanyakumari Express
22621: Rameswaram – Kanyakumari Express
16650: Parasuram Express
56700: Madurai – Punalur Passenger
16352: Nagercoil – Mumbai Express
12633: Kanyakumari Express
16128: Guruvayur Chennai Express
16340: Mumbai Express
56310: Nagercoil Thiruvananthapuram Passenger
16382: Kanyakumari Mumbai Express
56319: Nagercoil – Coimbatore Passenger
56318: Nagercoil – Trivandrum Kochuveli Passenger
16354: Kacheguda Express
12642: Thirukkural Express