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The Southern Railway volition undertake the phase-two redevelopment of the 3 large railway stations successful Ernakulam shortly. The Railways person decided to make terminals successful 3 cities, including Ernakulam, Coimbatore, and Chennai, arsenic portion of the Railways’ imaginativeness to boost the bid handling capableness of terminals successful large cities crossed the country. As portion of this, the terminal redevelopment works are nether mode astatine the Ernakulam Junction, Ernakulam Town and Thripunithura stations, which unneurotic grip a important stock of rider and freight postulation successful Kerala.
The large works nether the inaugural see expanding the existing terminals with further platforms, stabling lines, pit lines, and capable shunting facilities, identifying and creating caller terminals successful and astir municipality areas, and mounting up attraction facilities, including mega coaching complexes. The task besides covers expanding sectional capableness done postulation installation works, upgrading signalling systems, and adding multitracking astatine assorted points to grip the accrued fig of trains.
Redevelopment of Ernakulam Town Railway Station is planned successful 2 phases astatine a full outgo of ₹150.28 crore, with phasing designed to guarantee uninterrupted rider operations during construction. Phase I is nether mode successful the confederate portion of the presumption area. Existing facilities specified arsenic unit quarters, parcel office, work presumption maestro room, and substation and OFC rooms, were relocated to facilitate execution.
Structural works person already been completed, including those for the westbound terminal building, portion finishing works are successful progress. Major components of Phase I see multilevel car parking for 200 cars, occurrence protection, coating and finishing works, a 12-metre-wide ft overbridge, and level development. The archetypal signifier is expected to beryllium commissioned by May 2026. This volition beryllium followed by the 2nd signifier of work. The retendering for the Ernakulam Junction redevelopment task has been completed, and enactment volition commence shortly. Thripunithura Amrit Bharat Station redevelopment works are successful the last phase, according to a connection from the Railways.
