05-05-2025
Renovated Nagapattinam Railway Station building to be ready next month
The ongoing construction of the railway station building at Nagapattinam has reached the advanced stage of completion. The station building project was taken up as a special work and is being executed by the Tiruchi Railway Division.
The new station building for Nagapattinam, which is a railway junction, commenced in 2023 with a provision for necessary amenities required for the travellers boarding and alighting at this station.
The ongoing project is being executed at a cost of ₹4.2 crore with a provision of booking counter, a VIP lounge, and three retiring rooms among others, said a railway official. Electrical works are currently under way at the new station building which has reached the advanced stage of completion, the official said. Landscaping is to be done as part of the project outside the station.
Nearly 90% of the construction work had been completed and the project is expected to be completed by June-end, the official said and added that necessary amenities required for this station for the travellers would be provided in the new building. A railway line branches off to Velankanni from Nagapattinam making it a railway junction.
The Nagapattinam station's originating passenger earnings was over ₹20 crore during the 2023-24 fiscal. Inter-State trains such as the Ernakulam-Karaikal-Ernakulam; Karaikal-Bengaluru-Karaikal and Mumbai-Karaikal-Mumbai trains halt at Nagapattinam station besides Karaikal-Tambaram-Karaikal expresses.
