Cochin Harbour Terminus railway station

Cochin Harbour Terminus
കൊച്ചിൻ ഹാർബർ ടെർമിനസ് कोच्चिन हारबर टर्मिनस
Cochin Harbour Termius station (CHTS).
Location	Willingdon Island, Kochi, Kerala, India
Coordinates	9°57′18″N 76°16′08″E / 9.955°N 76.269°E / 9.955; 76.269Coordinates: 9°57′18″N 76°16′08″E / 9.955°N 76.269°E / 9.955; 76.269
Owned by	Indian Railways
Line(s)	Cochin Harbour Terminus-Shornur Jn
Platforms	2
Tracks	5
Construction
Parking	Yes
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Other information
Station code	CHTS
Fare zone	Southern Railway
History
Opened	1943
Electrified	no

കൊച്ചിൻ ഹാർബർ ടെർമിനസ്

Cochin Harbour Terminus (CHTS) is one of the railway stations in the city of Kochi, in the state of Kerala, India. It is located on the Willingdon Island. The Cochin Harbour Terminus is the principal station providing rail connectivity to the southern segment of the Port of Kochi located on the Willingdon Island. (Catering to the northern segment of the port located on Vallarpadam, is a separate rail-route and an exclusive container station). And hence it mainly handles goods transport in and out of the Kochi Port. Cochin Harbour Treminus Railway station is not in use after the commissioning of Vallarpadam container terminus. The station is now locked and all the trains to this station from Ernakulam Junction were stopped in 2013. Currently this station is under renovation for the suburban rail networks in Kochi .

Cochin harbour terminus is located on the Bristow Road in the Willingdon Island, Kochi. The station is an easy way to access the Wellington island in Kochi,which is difficult to reach especially for those outside the city.

Cochin Harbour Terminus railway station was built mainly for handling the cargo from Cochin Harbour .A port is never complete without a railway line. Earlier the trains came only up till the Ernakulam Terminus.The station had a metre gauge line to Shoranur. This had to be converted to broad gauge to connect it to rest of India. The new broad gauge line would pass through Ernakulam into Willingdon Island. Many different routes were studied and new stations were planned, and built along the way. These were Ernakulam Town, Ernakulam Jn, Perumanur (non-existent), Mattancherry Halt and finally, Cochin Harbour Terminus.More than the passenger traffic, freight traffic was anticipated .The huge Venduruthy Bridge had to be built to connect Willingdon Island with the mainland. The road bridge across Vembanad Lake was sanctioned and the engineers submitted their plan for a rail bridge alongside the road bridge and it was approved in 1936. Construction work started almost immediately and was completed in 1938.