Angamali (Kaladi)

Angamaly for Kalady (station code: AFK) is an NSG–4 category Amruth Bharat Railway Station Amrit Bharat Station Scheme Indian railway station in Thiruvananthapuram railway division of Southern Railway zone. It is a railway station Located at Angamaly (major suburb of Kochi City) in Ernakulam district of Kerala state in India operated by Southern Railway Network. It lies in the Shoranur–Cochin Harbour section of Trivandrum division. Angamaly is the halting point for 48 trains including Express and all Passenger trains passing through this station. The railway station is located about 26 km from Ernakulam Town and 10 km from Aluva stations. It Is the nearest railway station of Cochin International Airport , 5 km apart, where above 10 million passengers traveling every year. This railway station has a Full Rake facility of Goods Yard and FCI private sidings railway line and TELK private siding railway line. Angamaly ranked 28 out of 104 for earnings during 2016–17 fiscal year. The proposed rail line to Sabarimala is starting from here. The proposed line starts from Angamaly in Ernakulam district and ends at Erumelli, one of the major Ayyappa pilgrims base camp centre, at Kottayam district. The centre has allocated a total outlay of Rs 923 crore to the state for various railway projects for the year 2018–19. The new projects announced are the Rs 1518-crore doubling in the Thiruvananthapuram–Kanyakumari section and a third line in the 107-km-long Ernakulam–Shornur congested sector. The estimated cost of the project when it was conceived years ago was Rs 517 crore. But due to delay in implementation, the cost had escalated to Rs 1,566 crore now.