Cauvery Railway Station
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Cauvery Railway Station is a Railway Station in Pallipalayam
Pallipalayam
Pallipalayam is a sub-urban town in Namakkal district, India. It is located across the city of Erode, besides the Kaveri River. It falls under Tiruchengode sub-district and Komarapalayam Legislative Constituency and Erode Parliamentary Constituency. The panchayat was constituted in the year 1963,...

 in Namakkal District
Namakkal District
Namakkal District is an administrative district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. The district was bifurcated from Salem District with Namakkal town as Head Quarters on 25-07-1996 and started to function independently from 01-01-1997...

 of Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...

. It is also called as Kaveri Railway Station or Cauvery RS. The name is obtained because of its proximity to the Cauvery River
Kaveri River
The Kaveri , also spelled Cauvery in English, is a large Indian river. The origin of the river is traditionally placed at Talakaveri, Kodagu in the Western Ghats in Karnataka, flows generally south and east through Karnataka and Tamil Nadu and across the southern Deccan plateau through the...

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It falls between Erode Junction
Erode Junction
Erode Junction Railway Station is the main railway station in the City of Erode, in the state of Tamil Nadu in India, located at 3 km from Erode Central Bus Terminus at Swastik Circle....

 Railway Station and Salem Junction
Salem Junction
Salem Junction is a railway junction station located in Suramangalam, a former municipality about 5 km from Salem...

 in the Chennai Central - Trivandrum section. It is located near the city of Erode
Erode
Erode is a city, a municipal corporation and the headquarters of Erode district in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.It is situated at the center of the South Indian Peninsula, about southwest from the state capital Chennai and on the banks of the rivers Cauvery and Bhavani, between 11° 19.5"...

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It lies in the busy section of Chennai-Trivandrum in Salem Railway Division. Cauvery Railway Station is operated by the Chennai
Chennai
Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...

-headquartered Southern Railways
Southern Railway Zone (India)
The Southern Railway is the earliest of the 16 zones of the Indian Railways created in independent India. It was created on April 14, 1951 by merging three state railways namely Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway, the South Indian Railway, and the Mysore State Railway. The South Indian Railway...

 of the Indian Railways
Indian Railways
Indian Railways , abbreviated as IR , is a departmental undertaking of Government of India, which owns and operates most of India's rail transport. It is overseen by the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India....

. The station is used as shuttle station for Erode Junction Railway Station
Erode Junction
Erode Junction Railway Station is the main railway station in the City of Erode, in the state of Tamil Nadu in India, located at 3 km from Erode Central Bus Terminus at Swastik Circle....

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All the passenger trains running between Erode Junction and Salem Junction will have a stop at here.

PIN Code : Cauvery R.S. : 638 007.
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