Notwithstanding demands from railway patrons, including the Pashchima Karavali Railway Abhivriddhi Samithi to double the track between Mangaluru Central and Mangaluru Junction, Southern Railway’s Palakkad Division has claimed that the line is already doubled.
Responding to a query by a Sullia resident seeking details on proposals to double lines between Central and Junction and also between Junction and Padil (towards Hassan), Senior Divisional Engineer (Coordination), Palakkad, Nandalal Perumal said the Central-Junction stretch is already doubled. And there was no proposal to double the Mangaluru Junction-Padil stretch, he replied.
About 1 km stretch of the line, from Morgan’s Gate to Jeppu Kudpady, of the Mangaluru Central-Mangaluru Junction stretch is still a single line. At Jeppu Kudpady, the line joins the Shoranur-Mangaluru Junction double line while the total distance between Central and Junction is about 6 km.