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Paranur railway station
Railway station in Tamil Nadu, India / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Paranur railway station is one of the railway stations of the Chennai Beach–Chengalpattu section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. It is situated at a distance of 55 km south of Chennai Beach terminus and has an elevation of 42 m above sea level. It serves the neighbourhood of Paranur and the Mahindra World City at New Chennai.
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Location | GST Road, Paranur, Kanchipuram district, Tamil Nadu India | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 12°43′51″N 79°59′2″E | ||||||||||
Owned by | Ministry of Railways, Indian Railways | ||||||||||
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Structure type | Standard on-ground station | ||||||||||
Parking | Available | ||||||||||
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Station code | PWU | ||||||||||
Fare zone | Southern Railways | ||||||||||
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Electrified | 1965[1] | ||||||||||
Previous names | South Indian Railway | ||||||||||
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The station is noted for its maintenance by a public–private partnership between Mahindra World City Developers (MWCD) and the Indian Railways, reportedly the first of its kind in the country. MWCD gave the station a makeover after Mahindra World City, an integrated business zone, was developed in the neighbourhood.[2]