Mookambika Road Byndoor railway station


Mookambika Road Byndoor is a railway station in coastal Karnataka in South India. Its four-letter code is BYNR.
Mookambika Road Byndoor is the main railway station in the town of Udupi District. It serves Byndoor city which is 1 kilometres away from the station Trains from here connect the city to prominent state capitals of India like, Bangalore, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai and so forth. Rail connectivity in Byndoor was established in 1997.Mookambika Road Byndoor railway station. A total of 34 express and passenger trains halt here; there was one originating and terminating trains at this station: Mokambika Road-Kannur Passenger train; however this service was terminated in 2017 within two years of service due to lack of revenue generation. Although the railway station caters to a lot of passengers and superfast trains on a daily basis, it doesnot have a siding line or Passing loop. Any crossing of trains can only happen either on Bijoor or Shiroor railway stations 19 km apart.

Background

A KRCL official said that with a 93-m long station building and 10 m x 600 m platform, the Byndoor station is the biggest station in the Konkan Railway network, after Madgaon. The station is directly connected to Mangalore, Bangalore, Mumbai, New Delhi, Amritsar, Chandighar, Pune, Ajmer, Jaipur, Rajkot, Ahmedabad, Okha, Mysore, Belgaum, Jodhpur, Agra, Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam, Kozhikode, Kollam.

Infrastructure

This station has One platforms and Kollour Mookambika Temple type Building is the main Highlight.

Major trains from Byndoor station

It lies off the Kanyakumari-Panvel Road, in Mookambika Road Byndoor, PIN Code 576214. The Mangalore Bajpe Airport is 98 km away. The station is located at an elevation of 15 metres above sea level. It lies within the KR/Konkan Zone under the Karwar Division.

Other stations

It falls under Karwar railway division of Konkan Railway zone, a subsidiary zone of Indian Railways.
under the jurisdiction of Konkan Railway. Mookambika Road Byndoor has 3 stations viz Shiroor, Bijoor Halt, Senapur

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