16346 Netravati Express Entering Udupi Railway Station : Konkan Railways

GOC WDP4B WITH 16346 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - MUMBAI LTT NETRAVATI EXPRESS ENTERING / ARRIVING UDUPI RAILWAY STATION OF KONKAN RAILWAYS.

16346/Netravati Express (PT)
നേത്രാവതി എക്സ്പ്രസ്സ്‌ नेत्रावती एक्सप्रेस
TVC/Thiruvananthapuram Central (Trivandrum) -- LTT/Lokmanya Tilak Terminus

The 16345/16346 Netravati Express is a daily express train connecting capital cities of Kerala and Maharashtra. It operates between Thiruvananthapuram Central and Lokmanya Tilak Terminus. The train runs on the Konkan railway.
Initially the train was plied between Mumbai to Mangalore/Kochi as link via the inland Pune, Gulbarga, Krishnarajapuram, Palakkad route parting at Shornur Junction. Trains on the old route used to take 48 hours to reach Mangalore from Mumbai. After the Konkan Railway line was operational in 1998, the route has been changed via the Konkan Railway and the Mangaluru-Mumbai running time was reduced drastically to 16 hours. The link express was made a single train till Kochi and further extended till Thiruvananthapuram (which is the capital city of Kerala) from 10 February 2001.
Mangaluru city is situated at the banks of the Netravati River. Since this trains terminating point was Mangaluru back then, the name of the train was set as Netravati Express.
A WDP-4D ,belonging to Golden Rock,or a WDM-3D of Erode Shed hauls the train from Lokmanya Tilak Terminus to Mangaluru Junction after which an Erode based WAP-4 hauls the train for the remainder of its journey.

Coach Composition : -
Generator Car - 02
General – 02 Coaches
Sleeper - 10 Coaches
Pantry Car - 01
3 Tier AC – 06 Coaches
2 Tier AC - 01 Coach
Total = 22 Coaches

Udupi railway station is a railway station in Udupi district, Karnataka. Its code is UD. It serves the pilgrims visiting famous Krishna Matha (Krishna Temple) at Udupi and the university town of Manipal, which is 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) south from the station and Udupi. The station consists of two platforms. Most of the platform is not sheltered from the heavy rains that Udupi receives. The Konkan railway route in which trains are pulled by Diesel locomotives (Diesel engines) will now be powered by Electric locomotives after electrification of this route. Konkan railway conducted a trial run of Electric locomotives on 13 January 2020, Monday from Thokur railway station to Udupi railway station. The electric locomotive started from Thokur at 4 p.m. and reached Udupi at 6 p.m. On return journey the electric locomotive reached Thokur at 8 p.m.
Udupi railway station has a multipurpose stall and refreshment stall on platform 1. It has a restaurant at basement near parking area. Udupi railway station has fresh up facility where passengers can use this facility to take rest on hourly basis. The Udupi railway station has cashless facilities to help passengers not carrying cash (currency notes). As a part of initiative to become green, Udupi railway station has installed solar power generation of 7 kW out of station's requirement of 48 kW on 5 June 2016.

Trains : -
Matsyagandha Express (Mangaluru Central to Mumbai Lokmanya Tilak Terminus)
Hisar–Coimbatore AC Superfast Express, via Jodhpur, Vadodara, Panvel, Madgao, Mangaluru
Kerala Sampark Kranti Express (Chandigarh to Kochuveli)
Kochuveli–Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Garib Rath Express
Netravati Express
Thiruvananthapuram Rajdhani Express
Marusagar Express (Ajmer to Ernakulam)
Poorna Express (via Belagavi)
Pune–Ernakulam Express
Mangaluru–Madgaon Passenger
Madgaon–Mangaluru Intercity Express