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title: " No Kerala in Centre’s Four-Line Railway Expansion Plan; Major Routes Across India Get Priority"
english_title: "Kerala Excluded From Centre’s 11,000-Km Four-Line Railway Expansion Plan"
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#  No Kerala in Centre’s Four-Line Railway Expansion Plan; Major Routes Across India Get Priority

> **Lead Summary:** Kozhikode: Kerala has not been included in the Centre’s ongoing plan to expand railway lines into four-line corridors, despite the heavy traffic on several railway sections in the state. The Union government and Indian Railways have currently prioritised some of the busiest railway sections across the country for the large-scale infrastructure project.

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Kozhikode: Kerala has not been included in the Centre’s ongoing plan to expand railway lines into four-line corridors, despite the heavy traffic on several railway sections in the state. The Union government and Indian Railways have currently prioritised some of the busiest railway sections across the country for the large-scale infrastructure project.

Under the plan, the Railways is moving ahead with work to convert around 11,000 kilometres of railway routes into four-line corridors. Approvals have already been granted for nearly half of the proposed distance, while construction work has begun on several sections. The remaining routes are currently at the Detailed Project Report (DPR) stage.

The major routes included in the current plan are Delhi-Mumbai (1,384 km), Delhi-Howrah (1,529 km), Howrah-Chennai (1,653 km), Delhi-Chennai (2,174 km), and Chennai-Mumbai (1,289 km). Other important corridors covered under the plan include Chennai-Nagpur (1,089 km), Mumbai-Nagpur (835 km), Delhi-Nagpur (1,092 km), Howrah-Nagpur (1,127 km), and Delhi-Guwahati (1,964 km). These corridors together account for around 41 per cent of the Railways’ total traffic.

The volume of train traffic on these routes is significantly high. The Delhi-Howrah corridor reportedly handles around 120 passenger trains and 100 freight trains every day. On the Mumbai route, the corresponding figures are around 90 passenger trains and 85 freight trains daily.

Kerala, meanwhile, also has several heavily congested railway sections. The Thrissur-Ernakulam section handles around 100 passenger trains every day, while nearly 60 trains operate daily on the Kannur-Shoranur section. The Ernakulam-Thiruvananthapuram route has around 64 daily train services.

In addition to these services, Kerala’s railway network also accommodates short-distance local trains and MEMU services. Several trains originate from Kollam, Kottayam, Alappuzha, Palakkad and Kozhikode, while numerous freight trains also operate across the state.

The Railways has maintained that introducing additional train services on heavily utilised sections is difficult without expanding the existing infrastructure. However, Kerala’s proposed third-line projects have also made little progress, raising concerns over the capacity of the state’s railway network to handle growing passenger and freight demand.

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