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Madras Egmore station building opens

· Egmore

The Indo-Saracenic terminal of Egmore station, Madras terminus of the South Indian Railway, was opened on 11 June 1908.

Egmore had served as the Madras terminus of the South Indian Railway Company since the 1880s. Construction of a new terminal building began in September 1905. The building, in the Indo-Saracenic style, was officially opened on 11 June 1908. Egmore became the starting point for trains to the southern districts of the presidency, and it became part of the Southern Railway in 1951.

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