The main Portico of the Trivandrum

Central Railway Station

State Water Transport Department is
the main agency providing inland
water transport facilities.
Railways
The Indian Railways' Southern Railway line runs through the state connecting most of the major towns and
cities except those in the highland districts of Idukki and Wayanad.
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The railway network in the state is
controlled by two out of six divisions of Southern Railway; Thiruvananthapuram Railway division and Palakkad
Railway Division.
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Thiruvananthapuram Central (TVC) is the busiest railway station in the state. Kerala's
major railway stations are Kannur (CAN), Kozhikode (CLT), Shornur Junction (SRR), Palakkad Junction
(PGT), Thrissur Railway Station (TCR), Ernakulam Town (North) (ERN), Ernakulam Junction (South) (ERS),
Alappuzha (ALLP), Kottayam (KTYM), Kayamkulam Junction (KYJ), Kollam Junction (QLN) and
Thiruvananthapuram Central (TVC).
Major railway transport between BeyporeTirur began on 12 March 1861, from ShoranurCochin Harbour
section in 1902, from ShenkottaiPunalur on 26 November 1904, from Nilambur-Shoranur in 1927, from
PunalurThiruvananthapuramon 4 November 1931, from ErnakulamKottayam in 1956, from
KottayamKollam in 1958, from ThiruvananthapuramKanyakumari in 1979 and from Thrissur-Guruvayur
Section in 1994.
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Airports
Kerala has three international airports; Cochin International Airport, Trivandrum International Airport and
Calicut International Airport. Two international airports were proposed, at Kannur and Pathanamthitta as of
2008.
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Officials say that the Kannur International Airport will be completed in December 2015 and will
make Kerala the only state in the country to have four international airports.
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The Cochin International
Airport is the largest and busiest in the state, and was the first Indian airport to be incorporated as a public
limited company; it was funded by nearly 10,000 non-resident Indians from 30 countries.
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Inland water transport
As Kerala has numerous backwaters, waterways are used for commercial inland navigation. The transportation
is mainly done with country craft and passenger vessels.
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There are 67 navigable rivers in the state. The
total length of the inland waterways in the state is 1687 km.
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The main constraints to the expansion of inland