Mookambika Road Byndoor railway station

Mookambika Road Byndoor is a railway station in coastal Karnataka in South India. Its four-letter code is BYNR. Mookambika Road Byndoor is the main railway station in the town of Udupi District. It serves Byndoor city which is 1 kilometres away from the station Trains from here connect the city to prominent state capitals of India like, Bangalore, Thiruvananthapuram (via Southern Railway), Mumbai (via Konkan Railways) and so forth. Rail connectivity in Byndoor was established in 1997.Mookambika Road Byndoor railway station. A total of 34 express and passenger trains halt here; there was one originating and terminating trains at this station: Mokambika Road-Kannur Passenger train; however this service was terminated in 2017 within two years of service due to lack of revenue generation[1]. Although the railway station caters to a lot of passengers and superfast trains on a daily basis, it doesnot have a siding line or Passing loop. Any crossing of trains can only happen either on Bijoor or Shiroor railway stations 19 km apart.

Mookambika Road Byndoor
Express train and Passenger train station
LocationIndia
Coordinates13.9894°N 74.5657°E / 13.9894; 74.5657
Owned byIndian Railways
Operated byKonkan Railway
Line(s)Konkan Railway
Construction
Structure typeStandard
Disabled accessYes
Other information
StatusFunctioning
Station codeBYNR
Zone(s) Konkan Railway
Fare zoneIndian Railways
Websitewww.mybyndoor.com
History
Opened1997 (1997)
Previous namesByndoor
Services
Preceding station   Indian Railways   Following station
Byndoor
Bijoor halt
Location
Byndoor
Location within Karnataka

Background

A KRCL official said that with a 93-m long station building and 10 m x 600 m platform, the Byndoor station is the biggest station in the Konkan Railway network, after Madgaon. The station is directly connected to Mangalore, Bangalore, Mumbai, New Delhi, Amritsar, Chandighar, Pune, Ajmer, Jaipur, Rajkot, Ahmedabad, Okha, Mysore, Belgaum, Jodhpur, Agra, Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam, Kozhikode, Kollam.

Infrastructure

This station has One platforms and Kollour Mookambika Temple type Building is the main Highlight.

Major trains from Byndoor station

  • Netravati Express towards - Mumbai
  • Netravati Express towards - Mangalore
  • Matsyagandha Express (PT) - Mumbai
  • Matsyagandha Express (PT) - Mangalore
  • Coimbatore - Jabalpur SF Special (PT)
  • Jabalpur - Coimbatore SF Special
  • Marusagar SF Express (PT) - Mumbai
  • Marusagar SF Express (PT) - Mangalore
  • Mookambika Road to Kannur Passenger
  • Kannur to Mookambika Road Passenger
  • Karwar - KSR Bengaluru Express (Via Mysuru)
  • Karwar - KSR Bengaluru Express (Via Kunigal)
  • Madgaon - Mangaluru Central DEMU
  • Mangaluru Central - Madgaon DEMU
  • Mangaluru Central - Madgaon Passenger
  • Madgaon - Mangaluru Central Passenger
  • KSR Bengaluru - Karwar Express (Via Kunigal)
  • Yesvantpur - Karwar Express (via Kunigal)
  • Mumbai CSMT - Mangaluru Jn. SF Express (PT)
  • Mangaluru Jn. - Mumbai CSMT SF Express (PT)
  • Mangaluru Central - Madgaon Intercity SF Express
  • Madgaon - Mangaluru Central Intercity SF Express
  • Ernakulam - Okha Express (PT)
  • Okha - Ernakulam Express (PT)
  • Thiruvananthapuram Central - Veraval Express (PT)
  • Veraval - Thiruvananthapuram Express (PT)
  • Kochuveli - Bhavnagar Express (PT)
  • Bhavnagar - Kochuveli Express (PT)
  • Karwar - Yesvantpur Express (via Kunigal)
  • KSR Bengaluru - Karwar Express (via Mysuru)
  • Shri Ganganagar - Kochuveli Express (PT)
  • Kochuveli - Shri Ganganagar Express (PT)
  • Nagercoil - Gandhidham Express (PT)
  • Gandhidham - Nagercoil Weekly Express (PT)

Location

It lies off the Kanyakumari-Panvel Road, in Mookambika Road Byndoor, PIN Code 576214. The Mangalore Bajpe Airport (Code: IXE) is 98 km away. The station is located at an elevation of 15 metres above sea level. It lies within the KR/Konkan Zone under the Karwar Division.

Other stations

It falls under Karwar railway division of Konkan Railway zone, a subsidiary zone of Indian Railways.[2] under the jurisdiction of Konkan Railway. Mookambika Road Byndoor has 3 stations viz Shiroor, Bijoor Halt, Senapur

References

  1. https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/230517/railways-terminates-kannur-byndoor-passenger.html
  2. Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd. (10 June 2016). Monsoon Time Table (2016 ed.). Belapur, Maharashtra: Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd. Retrieved 10 August 2016.

Local news website

  • Mybyndoor.com


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