Rameswaram railway station
Rameswaram railway station is a railway station serving the town of Rameswaram located on the Rameswaram Island in the Ramnad district of Tamil Nadu. It belongs to the Madurai railway division and is an important terminal of the Southern Railway zone. The station links the pilgrim town as well as the rest of the island to the mainland via the highly acclaimed Pamban Rail Bridge. Location and layout. The station is one of the oldest in the country, and accommodate trains such as the Sethu Express and the Boatmail Express, which were two of the most significant  and historic trains operated in the region prior to the gauge conversion. There are four platforms, seven railway tracks, and two pitlines within the station. Currently, the Rameswaram railway station and the Pamban railway station are the only two functioning train stations in the island excluding the former rail terminus in Dhanushkodi that is no longer in use. The metre-gauge branch line from Pamban Junction to Dhanushkodi was dismantled after it was destroyed in a cyclone in 1964. Source Station. Since it is the last railway station on Manamadurai Rameswaram Branch Line, it acts as a source station for  all trains which are operated from here. They include: Boatmail Express Sethu super fast Express Rameswaram Coimbatore weekly Express Rameswaram Kanyakumari (cape) tri-weekly express Rameswaram Tirupathi tri-weekly Express Rameswaram okha weekly Express Rameswaram Bhuvaneswaram weekly Express Rameswaram Banaras weekly Express Rameswaram Ayodhya weekly Express Rameswaram Ajmer Humsafar Express (weekly) Rameswaram Madurai Passenger Rameswaram tiruchirappalli passenger