Malabar Express is the Oldest train In this route The 16629 / 16630 Malabar Express is an Daily Slowest Night Express train service in India, named after the Malabar Coast, the south-western coastal region of India that runs from Port City Mangaluru Central In Karnataka and Thiruvananthapuram Central in Keralas State Capital .
As the name suggests, it connects the two ends of the Malabar region (the Southern and the Northern).
The train initially ran between Madras and Calicut from 1888 & later extended to Mangalore to become Malabar Express.
On July 1, 1940, the train route was extended to Cochin Harbour Terminus which later got extended to Thiruvananthapuram Central to become Trivandrum Mangalore Malabar Express It is hauled by an Erode based WAP-4 or Royapuram based WAP-7 electric locomotive on its entire journey.
It runs via Trunk route Kottayam It has 23 coaches (10 sleeper class, 4 3-tier AC, 1 2-tier AC, 1 AC first class-cum-2-tier, 5 second class, and 2 brake van-cum-second sitter).