Palakkad MEMU Shed

Palakkad MEMU Car Shed is an ISO certified motive power depot facility for maintaining MEMU rakes, situated at Palakkad in the Indian state of Kerala.^[1] It is one of the four MEMU rake maintenance sheds serving the Southern Railway zone of the Indian Railways and the first MEMU Shed in Kerala.^[2][3]

Palakkad MEMU Car Shed

MEMU
Location
Location	Palakkad Junction railway station, India
Coordinates	10.8025579°N 76.6448605°E / 10.8025579; 76.6448605
Characteristics
Owner	Indian Railways
Operator	Southern Railway zone
Depot code	MEMU PGT
Type	Mainline Electric multiple unit
Rolling stock	MEMU
Routes served	SRRTooltip Shoranur Junction–CANTooltip Kannur railway station175.3 km PGTNTooltip Palakkad Town railway station–EDTooltip Erode Junction160.4 km SRRTooltip Shoranur Junction–CBETooltip Coimbatore Junction155.6 km PGTTooltip Palakkad Junction–ERSTooltip Ernakulam Junction149.4 km PGTNTooltip Palakkad Town railway station–CBETooltip Coimbatore Junction58 km
History
Opened	1 January 2011 (14 years ago) (2011-01-01)

History

Railway proposed MEMU Car sheds in Palakkad and Kollam in 2008's Indian Railway Budget.^[4] Palakkad MEMU shed inaugurated on 1 January 2011.^[5] The Kollam MEMU Shed was formally commissioned on 1 December 2013, five years after its completion.^[6]

Routes

66601/66602 Erode -Coimbatore--Erode.

66603/66604 Coimbatore-Shoranur- Coimbatore.

66605/66606 Coimbatore-Palakkad town -Coimbatore .

66607/66608 Erode-Palakkad town-Erode.

66609/66610 Palakkad -Ernamkulam-Palakkad

66611/12/13/14/15/16/17/18/19/66620 -Coimbatore-Mettupalayam-Podannur-Coimbatore.

See also

• Palakkad
• Palakkad Junction railway station
• Palakkad Town railway station
• Palakkad district
• Jolarpettai–Shoranur line
• Shoranur–Mangalore line