Talk:Thiruvananthapuram Central railway station

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First of all understand that Ernakulam Junction (South)is the busiest railway station in Kerala by means of volume of traffic of passengers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vivekkochi (talk • contribs) 07:26, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Requested move: From Thiruvananthapuram Central Railway Station to Trivadrum Central

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Binoy (talk) 13:04, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

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Thiruvananthapuram Central Railway Station → Trivandrum Central — The name of the article was Trivandrum Central, which was the correct name of the railway station, until it was moved to Thiruvananthapuram Central Railway Station recently: [1]

The accurate name of the railway station is Trivandrum Central as per the official sites of the Indian railways.
1. http://indiarailinfo.com/arrivals/59
2. http://southernrailway.gov.in/sr/stn_code.jsp
3. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Railway_network_schematic_map_2009.png

Even in the picture of the railway station one can spot out the the name is written as Trivandrum Central : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Tvmcentral.jpg

Please move this page back to Trivandrum Central to reflect the accurate name of the station.
Cheers, -- Rajith Mohan ^{(Talk to me..)} 10:06, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Makes sense. I agree with dropping the "railway station" part. But am not that sure about the Thiruvananthapuram<->Trivandrum part. While Indian Railways still goes by the old station codes (MAS for chennai, TVM for Trivandrum) it does take into account the name change of cities. For example the station code remains MAS but the name has been changed to Chennai Central. So it should either "Thiruvananthapuram Central" or "Trivandrum Central". --Sodabottle (talk) 15:27, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

In the case of Trivandrum Central, railway has not changed the station name. The official sites of indian railways reflects that. In case of Chennai, they have changed the station name to Chennai Central and retained the old code MAS. But in case of Thiruvananthapuram, the station name and code is not changed. You can verify that in the links I provided above. Cheers, -- Rajith Mohan ^{(Talk to me..)} 06:30, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

• Comment: I notice that most railway station articles do have 'Station' appended to the name (King's Cross Station for example) though the use of 'Railway' is rare. Are you aware of articles on railway stations where the station qualifier is not included? Just wondering about consistency.--RegentsPark (talk) 16:36, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Most of the Indian railway station names do not carry the word "station". Hence the articles about such stations are created to reflect the accurate name. Eg; Mumbai Central, Chennai Central. Cheers, -- Rajith Mohan ^{(Talk to me..)} 06:34, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

(Note: Notified WT:Noticeboard for India-related topics and WT:WikiProject Trains. --RegentsPark (talk) 16:40, 21 May 2010 (UTC))

• Support : The station obviously does not use "Thiruvanthapuram" ; it uses "Trivandrum"; the official name change do not reflect here; its much like Bomaby Stock exchange or IIT Madras. Since we have articles like "Chennai Central" i would recommend dropping station part as well. therefore, "Trivandrum Central" IMO. Arjun^codename024 17:22, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

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Proposal to create a sub article : Train services from Trivandrum Central

The Services section of the article requires expansion and it is making the article looks messy. Can't we create a sub-article for this and expand it further? Please announce your thoughts. Cheers , -- Rajith Mohan ^{(Talk to me..)} 09:33, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Revenue Earnings

Wikipedia Coimbatore page claims Coimbatore Junction is the second highest revenue yielding station in the Southern Railway and the same is also available in plenty of pages by googling. Pls clarify?

--Bijuts (talk) 16:01, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Information that may help

There was a presentation made by Mr.J.Vinayan,IRTS, Sr.Divisional Operations Manager,Trivandrum Division at TUNIFRA - 2011. A few points are listed down below. Hope this will get all an idea about Rail Infrastructure in Trivandrum..

Rail Infrastructure - A Perspective :

Saturated Line Capacity under Trivandrum Division

• TVC-QLN : 97.9 %
• TVC-NCJ : 114.1 %
• ERS-ALP : 123 %
• ERS-KYJ : 134.7 %

Trivandrum Central is a major coaching depot of Southern Railways.

• 5 Platforms & 5 stabling lines
• 5 pitlines with 24,24,22,18,15 coaches strength
• 19 daily originating,6 Weekly,2 Bi-weekly,2 Tri-weekly,5 Penta weekly,15 through trains(M/E/P)
• More than 75,000 passengers daily and is expected 1,00,000 passengers daily in two years.
• Primary maintenance of 30 express rakes
• Total Primary Coach holding at TVC is 634 coaches
• Total Secondary maintenance is 84 Coaches
• Platform Turn Round attention is 195 Coaches

Kochuveli

• 2 Platforms,3 Stabling Lines & 1 Pit line
• Pit line has 24 coaches strength
• 8 pairs of originating trains,5 weekly,3 Tri-weekly & 39 passing through trains (M/E/P)
• Average 1000 pasengers daily

Additional Infrastructure in Trivandrum area in budget 2011-12

• Nemom Coaching Terminal
• World Class Station mooted last year to take shape
• Multi Functional Complex
• Budget Hotel
• Development of facilities & approach of TVC with 50% assistance from Ministry of Tourism
• Trolley facilities extended to Trivancrum (Rail Yathri Sevak)
• Modern Laundry Proposed to be set up in TVC
• Electrification from TVC to NCJ to be completed

Proposals

• Develop Nemom as Satellite Terminal
• 7 km from TVC
• Already 27 acres of land available
• Another 60 acres to be acquired
• Install 8 pit lines,8 Stabling lines & 2 Platforms
• Double Nemom-TVC line, this will benefit Vizhinjam traffic also.
• Shift all Coaching operations & maintenace to Nemom

Final Picture

• Nemom with 8 pit lines will originate all trains to Kollam side
• Kochuveli with 3 pitlines will originate all trains to Nagercoil side
• Trivandrum withh all pits removed, will have 8 platforms, commercial facilities & set up the World class station as proposed.
• Multiple arrangements for a Metro for Trivandrum city to connect Thampanoor with the suburbs in future up to Kazhakkoottam-Balaramapuram-Nedumangad-Mannanthala to be connected.
• The single most important input we need to plan for is the development of Nemom as a Satellite Coaching Depot of TVC.
• Estimated cost about Rs.250 Crore only on today's prices

-- Aarem ^(Talk) 03:03, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

This is not the answer for my enquiry. Its all real facts.

Under Saturated Line Capacity of Trivandrum Division, u misses this stretch ERS-SRR FEDL : 115% which is the busiest stretch in Kerala State.

Then 75000 passengers, its because of Trivandrum central serving to the entire Trivandrum district. comparatively, Kochuveli is small. But other districts are different. For eg: Thrissur district served by chalakudy,Irinjalakuda, Thrissur and Wadakkanchery. In Ernakulam district, Kochi metro area served by Ernakulam Junction, Ernakulam Town, Aluva and Angmaly and for the district, besides these chalakudy too. Apart from TVC, Tivandrum district not having a major station like Aluva in ernakulam district. KCVL cant considered as it served only 7 departure trains. May be due to these reasons Trivandrum central revenue is high. --Bijuts (talk) 14:32, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Yes, may be less number of stations and express train stops in the district and neary by districts is contributing to the high revenue of TVC.

So what? What that has to do with the article? I did'nt get your point :-( Aarem ^(Talk) 04:47, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Dear Arem,

My question is "Wikipedia Coimbatore page claims Coimbatore Junction is the second highest revenue yielding station in the Southern Railway and the same result is also available in plenty of pages by googling." Here TVC claims its the 2nd. Please clarify? And your answer Talk:Trivandrum_Central#Information_that_may_help is no connection with it. Its only TVC expansion plans.

Oh, I see. But, my posting under this section was not an answer to your query on the previous section :-) This posting was just a knowledge sharing. Since you are very much in to Railway related topics, I addressed you. -- Aarem ^(Talk) 06:34, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

I respect you as a senior editor. I just meant to share, Please dont treat my messages othewise. --Bijuts (talk) 09:32, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

U r a fool Mr biju, no offense and sorry to say that... u r blind too... read cbe page again, it says cbe is second busiest in TN now thanks to u, according to IR, tvc is second busiest after MAS and not ERS. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.207.238.80 (talk) 08:14, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Suggested move

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The result of the proposal was moved. --BDD (talk) 22:08, 20 February 2013 (UTC) (non-admin closure)

Trivandrum Central → Thiruvananthapuram Central – Back in 2010 when this page was moved back to "Trivandrum Central", evidence was produced that, despite the name of the city being changed, Indian Railways still referred to the station by that name. In the intervening three years, Indian Railways appears to have caught up with the change, as shown on this timetable and this station index. The image now shown on the page quite clearly shows the station name as Thiruvananthapuram Central. --Relisted. Tyrol5 [Talk] 03:30, 13 February 2013 (UTC) Skinsmoke (talk) 00:59, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

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• Support - it's not unusual for railways, post etc to take time to catch up. In ictu oculi (talk) 10:57, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
• Support - The Hindu as well as Google maps uses Thiruvananthapuram Central. --Redtigerxyz ^Talk 14:00, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
• Support - Current usage trends towards usage of Thiruvananthapuram Central, and the even the city's name in Wikipedia is Thiruvananthapuram. Amartyabag ^TALK2ME 16:52, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

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Traffic figure

Article says, TVC is used by 2 lakh people per day. It could be better if we have a citation for this. IMHO, this is a bogus number. ponnambalam^{well known as santhosh janardhanan | talk me} 18:59, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

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