Palakkad Railway Colony, or Hemambika Nagar Railway Colony, is a residential colony of the employees of the

Palakkad Railway Division Palakkad railway division (formerly Olavakkod railway division) is one of the six administrative divisions of the Southern Railway zone of Indian Railways. It is headquartered at city of Palakkad, Kerala. It is the smallest railway division i ...

of the Southern Railway zone. It is situated in Hemambika Nagar, one of the suburbs of the city, located about 9 km from the centre of the city. It is one of the colonies which are maintained and are under Southern Railway. The only school in

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...

under Southern Railway,

Railway High School Palakkad Railway High School, Palakkad is a high school located in Palakkad city, Kerala, India.This is the only school in the state which is undertaken by Southern Railway. History The school was started by Indian Railways as a primary school, under ...

is located inside the colony.

Transportation

There are city buses connecting railway colony with other parts.These bus service starts from Stadium Bus Stand.

References

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Colony In modern parlance, a colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule. Though dominated by the foreign colonizers, colonies remain separate from the administration of the original country of the colonizers, the ''metropole, metropolit ...