Perambur Carriage Works railway station 3.79

Perambur Carriage Works is a suburban railway station less than a kilometre from the Perambur station in Chennai, India. The station has an elevation of 7.16 m above sea 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 and an indoor sporting facility.HistoryPerambur 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 erstwhile Madras 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 the Perambur 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 erstwhile South Indian Railway company, Madras and the Southern Mahratta Railway Company, and Mysore State Railway.The lines at the station were electrified on 29 November 1979, with the electrification of the Chennai Central–Tiruvallur section.DevelopmentsPerambur Carriage Works is one of the railway stations in the Chennai Suburban Railway network that are being developed as Adarsh stations.