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It has over 40 railway stations which are part of an extensive suburban railway network [1] The city is served by three railway terminals – the Puratchi Thalaivar Dr. M.G. Ramachandran Central Railway Station and the Chennai Egmore railway station and the Tambaram railway station. The first railway station to be built in Madras was the ...
Southern Railway zone covers the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry and a small portion of Andhra Pradesh. [9] Andaman and Nicobar will form part of the zone once the proposed new railway line between Port Blair and Diglipur becomes operational. [10] The Southern Railway is headed by the General Manager, assisted by an Additional General ...
Madurai Junction railway station (station code: MDU [2]) is an NSG-2 category Indian railway station in Madurai railway division of Southern Railway zone. [3] It serves the city of Madurai , located in Madurai district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu .
Katpadi Junction railway station (also known as Vellore Katpadi Junction railway station)(station code: KPD [1]), is an NSG–2 category Indian railway station in Chennai railway division of Southern Railway zone. [2] Katpadi Junction is the primary terminus and junction of Fort City Vellore. Katpadi is the eighth highest revenue earning ...
Arakkonam Junction railway station (station code: AJJ [3]) is an NSG–2 category Indian railway station in Chennai railway division of Southern Railway zone. [4] It is located in Ranipet district of Tamil Nadu. It is one of the oldest railway stations in India, located on the first railway line in South India.
Villupuram Junction (station code: VM [1]) is an NSG–3 category Indian railway station in Tiruchirappalli railway division of Southern Railway zone. [2] It is a railway station in Viluppuram, Tamil Nadu. Being a prominent railway station, it serves as the distribution point of rail traffic from Chennai, the state capital of Tamil Nadu ...
In the 2000s, the Vriddachalam line was also converted to broad gauge, making the station a complete broad-gauge station. The long-pending new broad-gauge railway line to Karur, started in the late 1990s, was commissioned in 2013. This paved way for a shorter, more direct route to southern districts of Tamil Nadu from Salem.
Thiruninravur railway station is one of the railway stations on the Chennai Central–Arakkonam section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. It serves the neighbourhood of Thiruninravur, a suburb of Chennai, and is located 29 km west of the Chennai Central railway station. It has an elevation of 37 m above sea level.