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Arani Road Railway Junction

a railway station in Tamil Nadu, India

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ19803891 ↗
Source-derived summary

Arani Road Railway Junction (station code: ARV) is an NSG–6 category Indian railway station in Tiruchirappalli railway division of Southern Railway zone. It is located in Kalambur, Arani in the Tiruvannamalai District. It was commissioned in 1889.

The Tindivanam route from the city of Nagari is planned by the central government to connect trains via Arani.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Arani Road Railway Junction” as a railway station in Tamil Nadu, India. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1889—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Arani, Road and Railway can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as a railway station in Tamil Nadu, India. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19803891. Authority coordinates are 12.631, 79.209. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1889.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Arani Road Railway Junction”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Arani Road Railway Junction primary sources, Arani Road Railway Junction archive and Arani research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Arani Road Railway Junction”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Arani Road Railway Junction” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.