About Southern Railway.

The Southern Railway, headquartered at Chennai, is one of the 18 zones of Indian Railways.

• It was created on 14 April 1951....
• by merging three state railways, namely, the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway, the South Indian Railway Company, and the Mysore State Railway.
• Southern Railway has emerged as the 4th largest zone.

Southern Railway's present network extends over a large area of India's Southern Peninsula, covering the states of Tamilnadu, Kerala, Pondicherry, & a small portion of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Serving these naturally plentiful and culturally rich southern states, the Southern Railway extends from Mangalore on the west coast and Kanniyakumari in the south to Renigunta in the North West and Gudur in the North East.