Kavaraipettai railway station
railway station in Tamil Nadu
Kavaraipettai railway station (station code: KVP) is a railway station located in Tiruvallur district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located on the Gudur–Chennai section of the Howrah-Chennai main line and comes under the jurisdiction of Chennai railway division of Southern Railway zone. It is classified as a SG-3 station (annual revenue less than 100 million rupees and less than 10 million passengers handled).
“Kavaraipettai railway station” enters the record as railway station in Tamil Nadu. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kavaraipettai, railway and station can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q63355659. Authority coordinates are 13.363, 80.147. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
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This entry incorporates text from “Kavaraipettai railway station” 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.