Southern Railway (India)
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Southern Railway is the first Railway Zone to be created in independent India. It was created on April 14 1951 by merging three state railways namely Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway, the South Indian Railway, and the Mysore state railway.
Southern Railway has its headquarters in Chennai and has the following divisions: Chennai, Madurai, Palakkad, Thiruvananthapuram and Tiruchirapalli. It covers the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Pondicherry and small portions of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. More than 500 million passengers travel on the network every year.
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