Rameswaram railway station is a railway terminus serving the town of

Rameswaram Rameswaram (; also transliterated as Ramesvaram, Rameshwaram) is a municipality in the Ramanathapuram district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is on Pamban Island separated from mainland India by the Pamban channel and is about 40 kilo ...

located on the Rameswaram Island in the

Ramanathapuram district Ramanathapuram District, also known as Ramnad District, is one of the 38 districts an administrative districts of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. The old Ramanathapuram District consists of Present day Virudhunagar Virudhunagar is a c ...

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a States and union territories of India, state in southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of India ...

. It belongs to the

Madurai railway division Madurai railway division is a railway division belonging to the Southern Railways (SR), India. Officially created in 1956, it spans over making it the largest railway division of the Southern Railways. Prior to the formation of the Thiruvanant ...

and is an important terminal of the Southern Railway zone. The station links the pilgrim town as well as the rest of the island to the mainland via the highly acclaimed Pamban Rail Bridge.

Location and layout

The station is one of the oldest in the country, and accommodate trains such as the

Sethu Express Sethu Superfast Express, is a Superfast train route of the Southern Railway zone of the Indian Railways and runs between Chennai Egmore and Rameswaram via Chord line. It is a standard train consisting of 23 coaches. The train covers a distanc ...

and the

Boatmail Express The Rameswaram (Boat Mail) Express, previously known as Boat Mail or Indo-Ceylon Express, is an express train that connects Rameswaram with the state capital Chennai via Devakottai. During 1900's it was a combined train and steamer ferry ser ...

, which were two of the most significant and historic trains operated in the region prior to the gauge conversion. There are four platforms, seven railway tracks, and two pitlines within the station. Currently, the Rameswaram railway station and the Pamban railway station are the only two functioning train stations in the island excluding the former rail terminus in

Dhanushkodi Dhanushkodi is an abandoned town at the south-eastern tip of Pamban Island of the state of Tamil Nadu in India. It is south-east of Pamban and is about west of Talaimannar in Sri Lanka. The town was destroyed during the 1964 Rameswaram cyclo ...

that is no longer in use. The metre-gauge branch line from Pamban Junction to Dhanushkodi was dismantled after it was destroyed in a cyclone in 1964.

Source station

Since it is the last railway station on Manamadurai Rameswaram Branch Line, it acts as a source station for all trains which are operated from here. They include: *

* Sethu super fast Express * Rameswaram Coimbatore weekly Express * Rameswaram Kanyakumari (cape) tri-weekly express * Rameswaram Tirupathi tri-weekly Express * Rameswaram okha weekly Express * Rameswaram Bhuvaneswaram weekly Express * Rameswaram Banaras weekly Express * Rameswaram Ayodhya weekly Express * Rameswaram Ajmer Humsafar Express (weekly) * Rameswaram Madurai Passenger * Rameswaram tiruchirappalli passenger

Timetable

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* Railway stations in Ramanathapuram district Madurai railway division Rameswaram Railway terminus in India Transport in Rameswaram {{TamilNadu-railstation-stub