Madurai East railway station

Madurai East railway station is an NSG–6 category Indian railway station in Madurai railway division of Southern Railway zone. It serves , located in of the Indian state of .
Wikipedia
  • Type: Railway station
  • Description: railway station in Tamil Nadu, India
  • Also known as: “Madurai East”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple and Thirumalai Nayakkar Mahal.

Hindu temple
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Meenakshi Temple, also known as , is a historic located on the southern bank of the in , Tamil Nadu, India. is situated 2 km northwest of Madurai East railway station.

Photo: R.K.Lakshmi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a palace completed in 1636 by Tirumala Nayaka, a king of the Madurai Nayak dynasty, who ruled from 1623 to 1659. It is located 2 km to the southeast of the Meenakshi Amman Temple in central Madurai. is situated 1¼ km northwest of Madurai East railway station.

Museum
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, established in 1959, is a memorial museum for Mahatma Gandhi located in the city of in , India. Known as Gandhi Museum, it is now one of the five Gandhi Sanghralayas in the country. is situated 2½ km north of Madurai East railway station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Madurai and Silaiman.

Photo: Vegpuff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, formerly Madura, is the third-largest city in the Indian state of . It is on the banks of the river Vaigai and has been a major settlement for two millennia.

Village
is a panchayat village in of Madurai District in the Tamil-Nadu state of India. is located on the right bank of the , on Route 85 about eight kilometers by road southeast of the city of , the district headquarters. is situated 7 km southeast of Madurai East railway station.

Hamlet
Palli Chandai is a small village near Keeladi the famous archeological site of Tamil Nadu on the border of and districts. The grave of Saalaar Shah Shaheed who was a soldier in the army of Qutb Sulthan Syed Ibrahim Shaheed of and Sulthan Sikandhar Badusha of in is located here. is situated 8 km southeast of Madurai East railway station.

Madurai East railway station

Latitude
9.90908° or 9° 54′ 33″ north
Longitude
78.13455° or 78° 8′ 4″ east
Operator
SR
Network
IR
Open location code
6JXWW45M+JR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5353573460
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Wiki­data ID
Q24947834
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In Other Languages

From French to Tamil—“Madurai East railway station” goes by many names.
  • French: “Madurai est”
  • Hindi: “मदूरै ईस्ट रेलवे स्टेशन”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱟᱫᱩᱨᱟᱹᱭ ᱤᱥᱴ ᱨᱮᱞᱣᱮ ᱥᱴᱮᱥᱚᱱ”
  • Tamil: “மதுரை கிழக்கு தொடருந்து நிலையம்”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Arulmiku Sri Muthumariamman Temple and Kaliamman Temple.

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