The Two Additional Platforms at Mangalore Central Railway Station to be Commissioned Soon: Click to Know

The two additional platforms, Platform No. 4 and 5 at Mangalore Central Railway Station are likely to be commissioned soon as the Palakkad Railway Division of Southern Railway has taken up the non-interlocking works to synchronise the signal and telecommunication systems with the newly laid tracks of the additional platforms. Commissioning of the two additional platforms would enhance the train handling capacity at Mangalore Central Railway Station. Mangaluru Central at present handles about 30 each arrivals and departures a day. The additional platforms enable the Railways to introduce more trains out of Mangalore Central thereby conceding demands of coastal Karnataka patrons for more trains towards Bengaluru and Mumbai regions.

Palakkad Divisional Railway Manager Arun Kumar Chaturvedi informed that the Division has obtained mega traffic and power blocks for six days from Sunday to Saturday, November 25 to facilitate the non-interlocking works. The blocks would be effective from four to seven hours on different days, starting at 10 pm and ending by 5 am. Some trains would either be cancelled or rescheduled or short terminated on November 24 and 25. The blocks would facilitate completion of electronic interlocking system for the additional platforms thereby integrating them with the existing three platforms and the main system. The would would be connected to the main lines — one towards Mangaluru Junction, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and the other towards Shoranur.

He further said while the platform work is almost complete, work on providing platform infrastructure, including seating arrangements, drinking water, shelters and extension of foot overbridges have commenced.