Jolarpet Junction Railway Station

Jolarpettai Junction railway station is one of the busiest railway station in Vellore district and an important Chennai division that connects kerala and Bangalore bound trains. The station is served by 5 platforms in which 4 and 5 platforms primarily serve trains bound from Bangalore to Chennai and Coimbatore-Salem to Chennai bound trains. Platform 1 and 2 serve for Chennai to Salem-Coimbatore-Kerala bound trains. Platform 3 or 4 for Chennai-Bangalore bound trains. This town is named after a British person " JOLAR" who was assigned the job of creating a place for Railway basement for their employees.Salient FeaturesThis place is the crossroads for south west & south east bound trains. Trains from north and east India should pass by this way only. It has the Second Largest Railway Yard in Asia. Per day 121 trainspass through Jolarpet. They have a centre for southern railway to repair goods compartments.. The history of Jolarpettai Junction goes back to the 1860s. When Madras Railways is started the rail started running from Royapuram to Wallajah Road,. In the mean time rail line work was started in 1864 in the Jolarpettai - Bangalore Contonement route in which Bangalore mail started its journey in 1868. The Brindavan Express when introduced in the late 1960s was considered one of the fastest train at that time which crosses the Jolarpettai - Bangalore cantonment section in 1 hour 30 min. This shows how people worked in this part of railways those days.