Coimbatore Suburban Railway

Coimbatore Suburban Railway is a circular suburban railway planned for coimbatore city.[1] The circular railway line will help run through Coimbatore Junction, Podanur, Vellalore, Irugur, Singanallur, Peelamedu and Coimbatore North. This will certainly help decongest the city roads. A senior official with the Salem division says, "if the revival of an old line can bring about so many benefits, it can be considered".

Coimbatore Suburban Railway
Overview
Other name(s)Kovai suburban rail
Native nameகோயம்புத்தூர் புறநகர் இரயில் சேவை
Statusplanned
OwnerIndian Railway
LocaleCoimbatore, Tamilnadu
TerminiCoimbatore junction
Connecting linesMettupalayam line, pollachi line, palakkad line, tiruppur line, kovai circular line.
Service
Typesuburban rail
Services5 Routes (planned)
Operator(s)Southern Railway
Depot(s)Coimbatore
Technical
Number of tracksSingle, Double
Track gauge1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad gauge
Old gaugeMeter Gauge
Electrification25 kV, 50 Hz AC through overhead catenary
Operating speed80 Kmph
Route map

Routes

These are the 5 proposed routes.

  1. Coimbatore Jn - Mettupalayam
  2. Coimbatore Jn. - Pollachi Jn.
  3. Coimbatore Jn - Tiruppur
  4. Coimbatore Jn - Palakkad Jn
  5. Coimbatore Jn - Irungur Jn - Coimbatore Jn (circular line)

Suburban stations

The other stations serving Coimbatore include Coimbatore North Junction (CBF), Podanur Junction (PTJ), Irugur Junction (IGU), Madukkarai (MDKI), peelamedu (PLMD), Singanallur (SHI), Sulur (SUU), Perianaikanpalayam (PKU) and Somanur (SNO).[2] Other stations like Chettipalayam, Urumandampalayam, Veerapandi and Pudupalayam are defunct. The people have asked to reopen the stations.,[3] The 1 km long Nanjundapuram Railway link line became completely defunct and was dismantled soon after the Coimbatore North – Irugur line was put to use.

Restoration of this Nanjundapuram Railway link line will help plan circular suburban electric train track connecting major train stations in the outskirts of Coimbatore like Mettupalayam, Irugur, Podanur, Pollachi etc to ease growing peripheral traffic. Reopening this defunct Nanjundapuram Railway line & Station can benefit residents from Nanjundapuram, Ramanathapuram, Redfields, Puliakulam, Sowripalayam, Udayampalayam, Singanallur, Varadarajapuram, Uppilipalayam and Ondipudur areas of Coimbatore for train connections to onward destinations. Irugur via Nanjundapuram: This bye-pass connection from Irugur – Podanur line to Coimbatore bye-passing Podanur had been laid long back at a time when Coimbatore was connected only from Podanur as a branch from Irugur – Podanur – Shoranur line. It was done to facilitate trains from Erode side to directly go to Coimbatore. However, this connection became superfluous when Coimbatore was directly connected from Irugur side via Pilamedu and Coimbatore North in 1953, and accordingly, this link line was removed at that time by Kerala Railway dominated Lobby. Since the doubling work between Irugur – Coimbatore section is in progress, these double lines will be utilised for suburban traffic if required This is the poignant backdrop of Nanjundapuram Railway Station now defunct.[4][5]

List of railway stations
List of railway stations in Coimbatore
No Name Native Name Station Code
1 Coimbatore Junctionகோயம்புத்தூர் சந்திப்புCBE
2 Podanur Junctionபோத்தனூர் சந்திப்புPTJ
3 Coimbatore North Junctionகோயம்புத்தூர் வடக்கு சந்திப்புCBF
4 PeelameduபீளமேடுPLMD
5 Singanallurசிங்காநல்லூர்SHI
6 Irugur Junctionஇருகூர் சந்திப்புIGU
7 Periyanaickenpalayamபெரியநாயக்கன்பாளையம்PKM
8 Madukkaraiமதுக்கரைMDKI
9 Somanurசோமனூர்SNO
10 Sulur Roadசூலூர் ரோடுSUU
11 Thudiyalurதுடியலூர்TDE
12 KaramadaiகாரமடைKAY
13 Ettimadaiஎட்டிமடைETMD
14 Kinathukadavuகிணத்துக்கடவுCNV

List of closed railway station
List of Defunct and closed railway stations in Coimbatore
No. Name
1Chettipalayam
2Urumandampalayam
3Veerapandi
4Pudupalayam
5Nallatipalayam
6Koilpalayam
7Tamaraikulam

References
  1. "coimbatore circular railway".
  2. "Route KM-Statewise" (PDF). Southern Railway zone. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 January 2013. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
  3. "Revival of defunct railway stations".
  4. quora.com/Can-I-know-the-defunct-railway-station-of-Coimbatore
  5. http://indianrailways.informe.com/forum/defunct-railway-lines-dt1161.html
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