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Revision as of 07:00, 19 August 2006 by Betacommand (talk | contribs) (Reverted edits by 203.27.235.5 (talk) to last revision (70268973) by Bobblewik using VP)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Perambur is a suburb to the north of Chennai, the capital of the state of Tamil Nadu in India. As the place used to be a bamboo forest a few hundred years ago, it has been named Perambur. In Tamil, "Perambu" means bamboo and "oor" means city or place.It is located 4 km from Chennai Central station. Part of Perambur belongs to Chennai North parliamentary constituency and the rest to Chennai Central.
This area was annexed to Chennai in 1742 AD.
Railways
Perambur is served by three railway stations. They are Perambur, Perambur Carriage Works and Perambur Loco Works. More information about transportation is available in Transport in Chennai
Southern Railway's workshop is located here. This workshop was established in the year 1856 to serve the erstwhile Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Company. It was a combined Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon POH & Coach building workshop and later bifurcated in 1932 to deal with Carriage & 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 by Perambur Carriage Works and Perambur Loco Works stations respectively. In 1951 the Southern Railway was formed by integrating the erstwhile South Indian Railway company, Madras & Southern Mahratta Railway Company, and Mysore State Railway with all their workshops and assets.
When ICF shell division was started, furnishing works were done at this works for the new shells turned out by ICF. This activity was done from 1956 to 1963, until ICF furnishing division came out. From 1965 onwards the main activity of Carriage & Wagon POH were started and POH of Air conditioned coaches are being under taken since 1954.
Most of the population residing here are employees of Southern Railway.
Neighbouring places
Perambur is one of the important places in connecting North Part of Chennai to the rest of the Greater Chennai. The neighbouring places of Perambur are Sembium(2 km), Periyar Nagar(4 km), T.V.K.Nagar(4 km), Kolathur (7 km), Moolakadai(5 km), Madhavaram(8 km), Vyasarpadi(2 km) and Dowton(not Downtown) or Purasawalkam(3 km).
See also
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