T’puram: Railways shifted the counters for reserved and unreserved tickets back to heritage building and has demolished the reservation block to build second north block building as part of the Thiruvananthapuram central railway station redevelopment plan.The buildings, except parcel office, adjacent to Thampanoor-Overbridge Road all the way till overbridge junction have been cleared.An official said that the space retrieved will be used to build a nine-storey second north block building that will have a huge waiting hall and other passenger amenities. The site will soon be cleared and piling work for the building will begin.The ticket counters used to be in the heritage building years ago till they were moved out to prevent overcrowding.The first building of north block that is taking shape will house concourses for departures and arrivals, ticket counters, retail outlets, hotels, commercial units facing the road and others.The railways aims to make central railway station into a transport hub by building huge terminals. This coupled with development of Thiruvananthapuram north railway station is expected to help run more trains from the state capital when the work is completed.
