Mangaluru railway area moves out of Palakkad division to Mysuru division of South Western Railway

1 October 2026

The transfer of the Mangaluru railway area from the Palakkad division of Southern Railway to the Mysuru division of South Western Railway took effect on 1 October 2026.
The Railway Board issued the notification on 21 August 2026, and operational control shifted to Mysuru on 30 September.
The new zonal boundary is at km 872.900 on the Shoranur Junction-Mangaluru Central section, and the jurisdiction transferred extends up to and including Ullal in Dakshina Kannada district.
Mangaluru Central, Mangaluru Junction, the goods shed and the marshalling yard move to the Mysuru division.
The interchange between the two zones has been shifted from Padil to Ullal, and Thokur is now the interchange between the Konkan Railway and the Mysuru division.
After the change, Palakkad division's limit on that line is around Ullal, about 35 km from Kasaragod on the Kerala side of the Netravathi river; the division had earlier lost the Coimbatore section to the newly created Salem division in 2007.
Chief Minister V D Satheesan urged the Centre to reconsider the decision, saying the transferred area accounts for more than 90 per cent of the Palakkad division's freight revenue, estimated at around Rs 650 crore, and more than half of its total revenue of about Rs 1,650 crore.