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16-09-1991 Inauguration of MRTS project between Madras Beach - Park Town. 01-11-1992 Introduction of first Rajdhani Express in Southern Railway between Bengaluru - Nizamuddin. 20-11-1992 Inauguration of Alappuzha - Kayamkulam BG line. 00-03-1992 Electrification of Jolarpettai - Bangalore section.
1861 – First railway in Paraguay, from the station to the Port of Asuncion on 14 June. 1862 – The first railway in Finland, from Helsinki to Hämeenlinna. 1862 – The Warsaw – Saint Petersburg Railway is opened. 1863 – First underground railway, the 4-mile (6.4 km) Metropolitan Railway opened in London. The adapted steam engines held ...
Royapuram (Tamil Nadu) Royapuram railway station (station code: RPM) is a railway station at Royapuram, on the Chennai Beach – Walajapet section of the Chennai Suburban Railway network in Chennai, India. It is the second oldest railway station currently operational in India after Howrah railway station situated in Howrah, West Bengal (the ...
Southern Railway (SR) is one of the eighteen zones of Indian Railways. It is headquartered at Chennai and operates across the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and the union territory of Puducherry. The origin of the Southern Railway can be traced back to the Madras Railway formed in 1845. Southern Railway was created on 14 April ...
Madurai–Virudhunagar–Tirunelveli Line. The Madurai–Virudhunagar–Tirunelveli Line is a railway line connecting the cities of Madurai, Virudhunagar and Tirunelveli in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. The line was inaugurated on 1 January 1876. [1] This railway is under control of Southern Railways. It covers 157.1 km.
The museum which is a part of the erstwhile South Indian Railway’s sesquicentennial celebrations, and has both indoor and outdoor exhibits. Some of the indoor exhibits include old documents and digital archives (rare photographs, maps, gazettes, railway manuals and books used during the British Raj) and epoch artifacts (old lamps used at stations made up of "China glass", clocks, bells ...
Nilgiri Mountain Railway is a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge railway in Nilgiris district connecting Mettupalayam and Udagamandalam. It was built by the British in 1908 and is operated by the Southern Railways. [24] [25] It is the only rack railway in India and operates on its own fleet of steam locomotives between Coonoor and ...
In 1578, Portuguese Christian missionaries published a Tamil prayer book in old Tamil script named Thambiran Vanakkam, thus making Tamil the first Indian language to be printed and published. [57] The Tamil Lexicon , published by the University of Madras , was one of the earliest dictionaries published in Indian languages.