The station is named after the Tamil freedom fighter Vanchinathan and was the site[4] of assassination of the British Collector, Robert Ashe. Today the station is a significant station in the Madurai railway division of the Southern Railway Zone, one of the six divisions established within the Southern Railway zone others being Chennai, Tiruchchirappalli, Salem, Palakkad and Thiruvananthapuram. A notification regarding a change in name has been issued by Southern Railway on 26-10-1988 [5]
Location and layout
Sunset at Vanchi Maniyachi Junction
The station is located on the Ottantham-Maniyachchi Road at a distance of 30 kilometres (19 mi) from Thoothukudi, its district headquarters. The following three lines connect the station
For the FY 2022–23, the annual earnings of the station was ₹30,015,508 (US$360,000) and daily earnings was ₹82,234 (US$990). For the same financial year, the annual passenger count was 192,651 and daily count was 528. While, the footfall per day was recorded as 816.[3]
