Perambur Loco Works | |||||
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 Perambur Loco Works railway station | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Coordinates | 13°06′30″N80°13′33″E / 13.108200°N 80.225700°E /13.108200; 80.225700 | ||||
| System |  Indian Railways andChennai Suburban Railway station | ||||
| Owned by | Ministry of Railways,Indian Railways | ||||
| Lines | West,West North andWest South lines ofChennai Suburban Railway | ||||
| Platforms | 3 | ||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||
| Construction | |||||
| Structure type | Standard on-ground station | ||||
| Parking | Available | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | PEW | ||||
| Fare zone | Southern Railways | ||||
| History | |||||
| Electrified | 29 November 1979[1] | ||||
| Previous names | Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway | ||||
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Perambur Loco Works is a suburban railway station in thePerambur area of the city ofChennai, inTamil Nadu, inIndia. It serves theIntegral Coach Factory (ICF) that is one of the largest railroad carriage and locomotive manufacturers in the world. The station serves growing areas like Periyar Nagar and Jawahar Nagar localities in the north-west corner of Chennai. The station has an elevation of 7.01 m abovesea level.
Perambur Loco Works is one of the three railway workshops serving Indian Railways' Southern Railway zone (the other two being thePerambur Carriage Works in Chennai and theGolden Rock Railway Workshop atTiruchi). The Perambur region has been a part of the Chennai city since the middle of the 18th century. The Southern Railway's workshop located here was established in the year 1856 to serve the erstwhileMadras and Southern Mahratta (M&SM) Railway Company and was one of the first major industrial units of the early-20th-century Madras.[2] It was a combined locomotive, carriage and wagon POH, and coach-building workshop and was later bifurcated, in 1932, to deal with carriage and wagon POH activity only, shifting the locomotive overhaul activity to the new Loco workshop which was built adjacent to the original workshop. These two workshops are served byPerambur Carriage Works and Perambur Loco Works stations, respectively. In 1951, the Southern Railway was formed by integrating the erstwhileSouth Indian Railway Company (Madras), theSouthern Mahratta Railway Company, andMysore State Railway with all their workshops and assets. The project 'subway to the platforms' was completed in mid-2019.
The lines at the station were electrified on 29 November 1979, with the electrification of theChennai Central–Tiruvallur section.[1]
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