Perambur
Perambur, is a suburb in North Chennai, which is the capital of the state of Tamil Nadu in India and also the fourth largest city in India.
Though the nomenclature source of Perambur is not apparently known, it is widely regarded as a place which used to be a bamboo forest a few hundred years ago, around the Huzur Gardens area, which currently houses the Simpsons Pvt. Ltd,. In Tamil, "Perambu" means bamboo and "oor" means city or place.It is located 4 km from Chennai Central station.
This area was annexed to Chennai in 1742 AD. [citation needed]
Schools
Perambur is an educational hub for schooling. It is served by a number of schools namely, Railway Mixed higher secondary school, Lourdes girls School, Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Montford School, Don Bosco, St. Marys. dfhgdfgh
Railways
Perambur is served by three railway stations. They are Perambur, Perambur Carriage Works and Perambur Loco Works. More information about transportation is available in Transport in Chennai.
Southern Railway's workshop is located here. This workshop was established in the year 1856 to serve the erstwhile Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Company. It was a combined Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon POH & Coach building workshop and later bifurcated in 1932 to deal with Carriage & Wagon POH activity only, shifting the Locomotive overhaul activity to the new Loco workshop which was built adjacent to the original workshop. These two workshops are served by Perambur Carriage Works and Perambur Loco Works stations respectively. In 1951 the Southern Railway was formed by integrating the erstwhile South Indian Railway company, Madras & Southern Mahratta Railway Company, and Mysore State Railway with all their workshops and assets.
When the ICF shell division was started, furnishing works were done at this works for the new shells turned out by ICF. This activity was done from 1956 to 1963, until ICF furnishing division came out. From 1965 onwards the main activity of Carriage & Wagon POH were started and POH of Air conditioned coaches are being under taken since 1954.
It is also one of the earliest British settlements in Chennai, mainly because of the railway establishments during the 1850's. Perambur is also noted for the largest presence of Anglo-Indians in Chennai and arguably in South India, mainly because of the erstwhile aplenty British settlements in and around Perambur, during the construction and running of the ICF.
Perambur, incidentally, is one of the major railway hubs in Chennai not only because of ICF but also due to a number of express/super-fast trains having stops. Perambur is the fifth largest station in Chennai in terms of volume of passengers handles after Chennai Central, Chennai Egmore, Tambaram and Mambalam.
Neighbouring places
Perambur is one of the most important places in terms of serving as connection between the Northern mofussils of Chennai to the rest of the Greater Chennai. The neighbouring places of Perambur are Sembium(2 km), Periyar Nagar(3 km), T.V.K.Nagar(3 km), Kolathur (4 km), Moolakadai(5 km), Madhavaram(8 km), Vyasarpadi(2 km) and Doveton or Purasawalkam(3 km).
Administration
The current Member of Legisltaive assembly for the Perambur constituency is Mahendran from the communist party (alliance of DMK). Perambur is bifurcated by two other constituencies, namely that of Vyasarpadi and Purasaiwalkam. It also falls under the North Chennai constituency for the Lok Sabha elections. Perambur comes under the 51st, 52nd and 53rd wards of the Chennai City Corporation.Periyar Nagar 2 Kms from Perambur Railway station. Periyar Nagar is a well planned residential area.