page_title: Kollam–Sengottai branch line
section_title: Popular trains on the route
hierarchical_section_title: Kollam–Sengottai branch line / About the route / Popular trains on the route
caption_attribution_description: English: Kollam-Schengottai stretch is a part of Quilon-Madras railway line, opened in 1904.
context_page_description: The Kollam–Sengottai branch line is a railway line in South India which connects Kollam Junction in Kerala state and Sengottai in Tamil Nadu. The Quilon–Shencottah railway line was the first railway line in the erstwhile Travancore state and is more than a century old. The Kollam–Sengottai section is part of the Kollam–Chennai metre gauge rail route commissioned by the British in 1904. The 96.1 km long section has been completely converted to broad gauge and is now fully operational from Kollam Junction to Sengottai.
context_section_description: Train No:6105/6106 (Earlier 105/106) Kollam-Chennai Egmore Mail was introduced in 1904 after the completion of the Quilon-Sengottai-Virudhunagar metre gauge line and was flagged off by the then Maharaja of Travancore, Moolam Thirunal. The train was later renamed the Quilon-Madras Mail. The train was extended to Trivandrum in 1918 after completion of the Quilon-Trivandrum metre gauge line. This train was one of the early metre gauge trains to have a First Class. The train was truncated at Quilon after the Kollam -Trivandrum Central metre gauge track was converted to broad gauge in 1977. The train went bypassing Madurai junction railway station via Manamadurai Junction from 1996 when the Virudhunagar-Madurai line was converted to broad gauge. The train was discontinued in 2004. After Successful gauge conversion to broad gauge line in 2017, Train No. 16105/06 once again started running between Kollam-Chennai Egmore via Sengottai-Virudhunagar-Madurai as Train No. 16101/02 Kollam-Chennai Egmore Mail.
  Train No:16383/6384 Tirunelveli Junction -Kollam Express was introduced in 1977. This intercity train used to run daily until 2002 between Kollam or Quilon & Tirunelveli. The route got shortened after 2002 as Punalur-Sengottai Intercity Express. Ultimately in 2013, this train was withdrawn from service. After gauge conversion was successfully over, 16383/6384 Tirunelveli Junction -Kollam Express was re-introduced as 16791/92 Tirunelveli Junction-Palakkad Junction Palaruvi Express via Tenkasi Junction-Sengottai-Punalur-Kollam Junction(Undergoes reversal)-Kottayam-Ernakulam Town-Thrissur
  Sengottai-Kollam passenger train was the main means of transport among office workers and students along this route.
caption: Rail line towards Kollam Junction near Kuri
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