Ernakulam Terminus | |||||
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Indian Railway Station | |||||
General information | |||||
Location | Kochi, Kerala, India | ||||
Coordinates | 9°59′13″N 76°16′30″E / 9.987°N 76.275°E | ||||
Owned by | Indian Railways | ||||
Other information | |||||
Station code | ERG | ||||
Fare zone | Southern Railway | ||||
History | |||||
Opened | 1902 | ||||
Closed | 1990 | ||||
Electrified | No | ||||
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Ernakulam Terminus (Station Code:ERG), also called as Ernakulam Goods Station or Ernakulam Old Station, is an abandoned railway station in the Indian city of Kochi, Kerala. It is one of the first railway stations in Kochi, built by the Maharaja Rama Varma XV of Kochi. The first passenger trains started service from the station on 16 July 1902. The station lost its prominence with the commissioning of Ernakulam Junction railway station in 1932 and Cochin Harbour Terminus in 1943. Though a few passenger-trains used to halt at the old station till the 1960s, it was ignored with the passage of time and was abandoned in 1990. Many historical figures like Mahatma Gandhi, Swami Vivekananda and Rabindranath Tagore have visited Kochi through this station.[1]