Thanjavur Junction railway station

Thanjavur Junction (station code: TJ ) is an NSG–3 category Indian railway station in Tiruchirappalli railway division of Southern Railway zone. It is a junction railway station in Thanjavur district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and serves Thanjavur, earlier known as Tanjore.

History
Thanjavur is located on the "main line" of the railway system in the Coromandel coast connecting Chennai with Tiruchirappalli via Villupuram, Cuddalore, Kumbakonam and Thanjavur junction. In 1861 the Great Southern of India Railway (GSIR) built the 125 km-long broad gauge line between Nagapattinam and Tiruchirapalli (then known as Trichinopoly) and the line was opened to traffic next year. It was a new development south of Chennai. After taking over of GSIR by South Indian Railway Company in 1874, the Nagapattinam–Tiruchirapalli line was converted to -wide metre gauge in 1875.

The South India Railway Company laid a 715 km-long metre gauge trunk line from Chennai to Tuticorin via Cuddalore, Kumbakonam and Thanjavur in 1880. The 82.67 km long Tindivanam–Cuddalore Port (then known as Cuddalore Junction) sector, 27.60 km long Cuddalore Port–Porto Novo sector, 19.71 km long Shyali–Mayiladuthurai sector and 70.42 km long Mayiladuthurai–Thanjavur sector were opened in 1877, thereby connecting Tindivanam to the already opened Tiruchirappalli–Nagapattinam line.

Three rail lines branch for Thanjavur Junction:
 * 1) Towards north for Kumbakonam Railway Station.
 * 2) Towards east for Nidamangalam Junction.
 * 3) Towards west for Tiruchirappalli Junction.

Accident
On 8-1-1958 at about 6:25 hours while backing No. 101 Madras-Egmore–Dhanushkodi Boat Mail on the platform line of Tanjore Junction, its rear portion bumped against the rear portion of No 112  Tenkasi Passenger which was standing on the other end of this platform, having been received earlier.

Gauge conversion
The Cuddalore Port–Vadalur sector was converted in 2003. After conversion work of the Thanjavur–Tiruvarur broad-gauge section was opened to traffic in 2006 and Tiruvarur–Nagore section in 2010.

Electrification
New electrification survey in 2012–13 had been sanctioned in the Railway budget for the Karaikkal/Karaikkal Port–Nagapattinam-Thiruvarur-Needamangalam-Thanjavur–Tiruchirappalli and Nagapattinam–Velankanni sectors. The Electrification of Tiruchirappalli-Thanjavur-Kumbakonam-Mayiladuthurai section was completed in the end of 2020 and it was commissioned on 14 February 2021.

Projects and development
It is one of the 73 stations in Tamil Nadu to be named for upgradation under Amrit Bharat Station Scheme of Indian Railways.