Rameswaram - Dhanushkodi OR Pamban - Dhanushkodi OR Dhanushkodi - Pamban? The question arises again.

Posted by Dr.Jitendra Mulky on 2012 Aug 27 03:19:18 +0000

Pamban - Dhanushkodi. The line to RMM branched off at PBM.

Posted by Aravind S on 2012 Aug 27 12:40:39 +0000

Before the cyclone, Madras - Dhanushkodi was the mainline and Pamban - Rameswaram was the branch line with stopping passenger trains only with the sole exception of a through train running up to Madurai Jn. In the 1955 and 1958 timetables, the two stopping passenger trains were running between Mandapam (not Pamban) and Dhanushkodi. Still, a Rameswaram - Dhanushkodi passenger train in 1964 with reversal at Pamban Jn. is not an impossibility nor is a new Pamban - Dhanushkodi passenger train.

In any case the caption on the picture are comments of the photographer/news agency who should know better as they were there.

Posted by Harsh Vardhan on 2012 Aug 28 05:16:31 +0000

Most available info on the web refer to the ill fated train as the #653 Pamban-Dhanushkodi passenger train that met with its end, while waiting to enter the Dhanushkodi station on the night of Dec 22, 1964.

Posted by Manohar Natarajan on 2012 Aug 28 08:57:06 +0000

The remains of the Railway Station at Dhanushkodi is still there.

Posted by Shravanth Vasisht on 2012 Aug 30 10:22:14 +0000