Malabar Express Malabar Express The Malabar Express (Malayalam: മലബാര്‍ എക്സ്പ്രസ്സ്‌) is a train service in India, named after the Malabar coast, the south-western coastal region of India from Mangalore Central to Thiruvananthapuram Central. As the name suggests, it connects the Malabar region in north Kerala to the south. The train has one of the longest running time between Mangalore and Thiruvananthapuram Central. It Shares its Rake with 16603/04 "Maveli Express", 12601/02 "Mangalore Central-Chennai Central Superfast Mail" and 22637/38 "West Coast Super Fast Express".Malabar Express is one of the most popular trains in Kerala. As the route is fully electrified. It is hauled
St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Church, Palayoor Seven churches traditionally assigned to the time when Saint Thomas preached in Malabar. The wooden structure must undoubtedly have been very old, and constructed no doubt of teak, which formerly grew all over the country, even in comparatively recent times: at that early age the supply must have been very plentiful. In ‘Lingerings of light in a dark land: Researches into the Syrian church of Malabar’ published in 1873, Thomas Whitehouse quotes: "Of palur,little can be said having any special interest.It was the most northern of the seven ancient churches,as Quilon as the most southern.The village at present an unimportant