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Chennai Central Railway Station

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Chennai Central, officially named Puratchi Thalaivar Dr. M.G. Ramachandran Central railway station, is one of the busiest railway stations in South India and a major rail hub for the country. Built in 1873 to relieve the older Royapuram station, it was designed by the architect George Harding and later modified in 1900 to a design by Robert Chisholm, giving the building its mixed Gothic Revival and Romanesque architecture and making it one of Chennai's most prominent landmarks. The station has been painted in maroon since it opened, and its clock tower, 136 feet high, has chimed on the quarter hour and hour since the building's earliest days; after its 2019 renaming the station gained the second longest name of any railway station in the world, after the station at Llanfairpwllgwyngyll in Wales.

Facts
Building Type
Railway Station 1
Location
Poonamallee High Road, Periamet, Chennai, India 1
Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account
1873 2
Partially Attested
Height (m)
41 1
Source gives the height of the clock tower (136 ft), not the whole building.
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Railway Station 1
Connections

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Train Station, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Gothic Revival, Styles and Movements
Source Chennai Central railway station - Wikipedia
Romanesque Revival Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Chennai Central railway station - Wikipedia
In the Other Atlases
  • Also in Geography Atlas: India, located there.
Sources
1. Chennai Central railway station - Wikipedia
  • Introduction, paragraph 1
    is a railway station in Chennai, India
  • Infobox, address
    Poonamallee High Road, Periamet, Chennai
  • Layout and architecture
    reaches a height of 136 ft (41 m)
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Chennai Central, officially named Puratchi Thalaivar Dr. M.G. Ramachandran Central railway station, is one of the busiest railway stations in South India and a major rail hub for the country. Built in 1873 to relieve the older Royapuram station, it was designed by the architect George Harding and later modified in 1900 to a design by Robert Chisholm, giving the building its mixed Gothic Revival and Romanesque architecture and making it one of Chennai's most prominent landmarks. The station has been painted in maroon since it opened, and its clock tower, 136 feet high, has chimed on the quarter hour and hour since the building's earliest days; after its 2019 renaming the station gained the second longest name of any railway station in the world, after the station at Llanfairpwllgwyngyll in Wales.
  • In Style: Gothic Revival, Infobox style field: Gothic Revival, Romanesque
  • In Style: Romanesque Revival Architecture, Infobox style field: Gothic Revival, Romanesque
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2. Chennai Central Railway Station (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (1873)
Quote, Wikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (1873)
Wikidata item Q257382, property P1619: 1873
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