Additional entrance to North Coimbatore Station expected to scale up passenger patronage significantly

Rail users hope for entrance from Mettupalayam Rd to Coimbatore North Railway Station, stoppage of express trains, platform extension, shifting of goods shed, resizing of existing platforms & terminating point to ease pressure at main junctions. MP Natarajan emphasises on halting trains to control crowding.

The travelling public believe that an entrance from the Mettupalayam Road to the Coimbatore North Railway Station will push up patronage and also pave way for consideration of stoppages by the Railway Board.

Earlier this year, Darshana Jardosh, Minister of State for Railways and Textiles, promised after an inspection of the station that the demand of the rail passengers for stoppage of express trains at Coimbatore North Railway Station will be fulfilled after completion of the works under the Amrit Bharat Station Development Scheme.

The works initiated under the scheme at ₹11.5 crore would improve facilities in the station.

The Railways has categorised the station, which has double electric line, as a Junction since the track to Mettupalayam branches off from there. However, there is no originating or terminating station, so far.

According to Railway sources, platform extension work will be carried out shortly for stoppage of express trains, in keeping with the Centre’s policy to develop additional stations in main cities to ease pressure at the main junctions.

Rail user associations have, for long, demanded shifting of the goods shed from there to Irugur or Peelamedu.

According to J. Sathish, former member of Divisional Railway Users’ Consultative Committee and Director, Kongu Global Forum, there was sufficient scope for resizing the existing platforms for creation of four platforms at the station and making it a terminating point.