Allepey Port Revisited

The beach is a tourist attraction and people have no regard for the heritage. I would like to see a puny steam loco huffing and puffing in place of the Santro

Intricate points wait forever for a train to roll over them

Did this water tank quench thirst of the puny locos that once operated here, and the people dearest to them?

What the scrap dealers forgot to take is a monument for us. Sleepers and remains of a trolley are the only remnant of the railway system, other than the rails.

This was once the Traffic Controller's office. It was from here the "Station Master" controlled all the railway activity in the port

This was the carriage workshop. I was unable to find not even a single carriage or remains of loco inside the shed and it is totally dilapidated filled with anti social elements

Behind the trafic controllers office is this narrow gauge goods yard of yesteryears. Imagine the place bustling with activity fifty years ago!

I found this line wandering far away, and ending in front of the Customs Superintendent's Office (there is still a lone customs officer posted here!). Maybe it carried trains taking customs babus of yesteryears for inspection on the piers

Looking very unusual amongst the remains is this well kept building which is the remains of the signaling house. It was from here the ships communicated to the shore

Breaking the sound of waves is Netravati Express heading to Mumbai. A canon guards the port from pirates while a part of fallen signaling mast wait to be torn apart

King Balarama Varma I (Uthradam Thirunal) watches over the defunct port in a land he no longer rules. It was during his reign the port, as well as Quilon-Schencottah Railway line was built. I could not find any of his memorabilia on the Quilon-Schencott

Modern phase of railway in Alleppey. The town has been renamed Allappuzha and so is the Railway Station. It falls in the eletrified route from Ernakulam Jn to Trivandrum. The rake on the left is Alleppey Chennai Exp. An Arakkonam Barbie doll takes res

The pier of Alleppey port has been lying in disuse for almost a decade and is in a totally dilapidated condition, waiting to be swallowed by the sea. Once a thriving port, this pier had three narrow gauge lines running through it reaching to the ships th

Another view of the pier that once supported the narrow gauge line and the lives of several thousand workers attatched to it. A few lakhs of rupees spent at the right time could have saved this important landmark from reaching such a fate. One could wal

The narrow gauge lines are burried under the sands of time. From the pier, they ran to the warehouses situated far in the town.