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Tag: Egmore Railway Station

  • Egmore Station to undergo extensive makeover

    Egmore Station to undergo extensive makeover

    Egmore Station to undergo extensive makeover with the heritage building retained but the plans don’t seem to highlight or showcase the historic structure.

  • Those Magnificent Railway Buildings

    Those Magnificent Railway Buildings

    Vinoo N Mathur in his book Indian Railway Buildings undertakes a comprehensive and well-written record of the Indian Railways’ built heritage.

  • The Egmore Redoubt – A Lost Landmark of Chennai

    The Egmore Redoubt – A Lost Landmark of Chennai

    Tracing the whereabouts of the Egmore Redoubt, once an important security feature for the city, now vanished.

  • Security – Railway style

    The railways have ‘beefed up’ the security at Central following the bomb explosion. As to how they have done it…

  • Exasperation in Egmore

    The Man from Madras Musings can hear you all groan “Oh, no, not another Egmore story.” But let MMM assure you that once you have read it your knotted and combined locks will part and stand on end like quills on a fretful porpentine, as the Bard said. That by the way is something that…

  • Egmore eccentricities

    Those of you who follow these ramblings of The Man from Madras Musings would know that MMM is quite fond of Egmore Station, though he would be the first to admit that it is not what it was. The other day MMM was happy to note that the railway authorities were equally glad to see…

  • Short and Snappy dated 16th October 2012

    An elegy for Egmore Station The Man from Madras Musings has always had a soft corner for Egmore Station. MMM remembers a time when he was young (and, may he add, cherubic), and when this stately edifice was to him almost akin to a cathedral. Silence was its dominant feature. Its vast interiors were sparsely…