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Watch | Inside India’s oldest, surviving railway station

The Royapuram railway station in Chennai is India’s oldest surviving railway station. This station is still functional even as it enters its 167th year.

The Royapuram station sent the first train of southern India chugging out, on June 28, 1856.

The first passenger train carried the Governor of Madras Presidency, Lord Harris and 300 European delegates.

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