Unlike the Chennai Central and Egmore railway stations which bustle with commuters and train movements round-the-clock, the red brick building of the Royapuram railway station sits forlorn and ...

CHENNAI: The Royapuram railway station celebrated its 166th anniversary on Tuesday. Trains started chugging out the heritage red brick building on June 28, 1856. The first run was conducted in the ...

Royapuram railway station, Chennai (1856) Royapuram Railway Station holds the distinction of being the third oldest operational railway station in India and the oldest in South India. Located in ...

Covered with a thick layer of mud and vegetation, landmark structures at the Royapuram Railway Station pose a picture of abject neglect and are in dire need of a new lease of life. The first train ...

The country’s oldest surviving railway station may soon be demolished. Southern Railway is likely to raze the old Royapuram station, built in 1856, for development work. Earlier this week ...

Royapuram station, declared open in 1856, is today the oldest railway station in the entire subcontinent. History house: A view of the Royapuram railway station. Photographs by G Nathan/Mint This ...

Royapuram Railway Station in Chennai is one of the oldest railway stations in India and it is still functioning. Opened in 1872, Agra Fort Railway Station is one of the oldest stations in India ...

who was in Chennai on Friday to inspect Royapuram railway station, said that he would write to Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on its suitability as a third terminal for the city. “There is a space ...

Chennai: Southern Railway has abandoned plans to convert the Royapuram heritage railway station into the city’s fourth railway terminal — which distinction now goes to the Tondiarpet railway ...

CHENNAI: Pointing out that the Royapuram railway station building at present stands enlisted in the list of heritage buildings and there is a protection to the building, the Madras high court has ...

A bustling coastal constituency that is home to the nation’s second oldest railway station, Royapuram is one of the oldest assembly segments in Chennai. Thickly populated and home to a shopping ...

History house: A view of the Royapuram railway station. Photographs by G Nathan/Mint Like every other modern institution in India, railways too originated in Madras, in the sense that the Madras ...