Perambur Carriage Works railway station | |||||
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 Perambur Carriage Works railway station | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Coordinates | 13°06′26″N80°14′20″E / 13.107300°N 80.238900°E /13.107300; 80.238900 | ||||
| System |  Indian Railways andChennai Suburban Railway station | ||||
| Platforms | 3 | ||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||
| Construction | |||||
| Structure type | Standard on-ground station | ||||
| Parking | Available | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | PCW | ||||
| Fare zone | Southern Railways | ||||
| History | |||||
| Electrified | 29 November 1979[1] | ||||
| Previous names | Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway | ||||
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Perambur Carriage Works railway station is a suburban railway station less than a kilometre from thePerambur railway station inChennai,Tamil Nadu,India. The station has an elevation of 7.16 m abovesea level. Mainly POH and IOH of all type of passenger coaches are undertaken here. The railway department has many facilities around this station, including a school (Railway Mixed Higher Secondary School), and an indoor sporting facility (Railway Stadium).
Perambur Carriage Works is one of the three railway workshops serving Indian Railways' Southern Railway zone (the other two being thePerambur Loco Works in Chennai and theGolden Rock Railway Workshop atTiruchi). Perambur region, which has been a part of the Chennai city since the mid-18th century, is home to the Southern Railway's workshop, which was established in 1856 to serve the erstwhileMadras and Southern Mahratta Railway Company. A combined locomotive, carriage and wagon POH, and coach-building workshop, it was bifurcated, in 1932, to deal with carriage and wagon POH activity only, shifting the locomotive overhaul activity to the new Loco workshop built adjacent to the original workshop. Perambur Carriage Works station was built along with thePerambur Loco Works station to serve these two workshops. The workshops, along with other assets, came under the Southern Railway with its formation in 1951, integrating the erstwhileSouth Indian Railway Company (Madras), theSouthern Mahratta Railway Company, andMysore State Railway.
The lines at the station were electrified on 29 November 1979, with the electrification of the Chennai Central–Tiruvallur section.[1]
Perambur Carriage Works is one of the railway stations in the Chennai Suburban Railway network that are being developed as Adarsh stations.[2]
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