Mangaluru-Panambur doubling to be completed by next year

A crucial bottleneck of railway line at the interchanging point between Southern Railway and Konkan Railway in Mangaluru area would be removed after doubling work on the 19-km Mangaluru Junction-Panambur section is completed, a senior railway official has said.
The six-km of the line between Jokatte and Panambur on the route would be completed before March 2016.Electrification work between Kozhikode and Kannur in Kerala was likely to get completed by this December and work between Kannur and Mangaluru was progressing rapidly, Anand Prakash, Divisional Railway Manager, Southern Railway, Palakkad Division said in a release here today.
The DRM said the overall earnings of Palakkad Division was going on par with that of the previous year. The earnings in the first four months of the financial year was Rs 374.86 crore, of which Rs 207.57 crore accounted for passenger earnings, Rs.145.68 crore towards goods earnings, Rs 12.58 crore for other coaching earnings and Rs 9.03 crore towards sundry earnings.

Prakash said work on gauge conversion on Palakkad-Pollachi section (55 km) was almost complete and inspection by the commissioner of Railway Safety would be done soon.
Once commissioned, the Palakkad-Pollachi-Palani-Dindigul stretch would provide alternative link to the rail network in South Tamil Nadu, he said.