page_title: Karur
section_title: Railway
hierarchical_section_title: Karur / Economy / Railway
caption_attribution_description: English: The entrance of Karur Railway station
context_page_description: Karur is a city in Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Karur is the administrative headquarters of Karur district. It is located on the banks of River Amaravathi in the Kongunadu region of Tamil Nadu.
  Karur is well known for the export of Home Textile products to USA and Europe so well known as Textile export hub. It is situated at about 395 kilometres southwest of the state capital Chennai and 295 kilometres away from Bengaluru.
  Karur has been ruled at different times, by the Murkala Cheras before the kodungalur Cheras, Later Cholas, Vijayanagar Empire, Madurai Nayaks, Mysore Kingdom and the British.
context_section_description: Karur Junction railway station (station code - KRR) is one of the railway junctions under the Salem division of the Indian Railways network. It is one of the major railway station in Southern Railways and also an A grade junction in salem division. Almost All trains to various part of the country halts here. It has 5 active Platforms and 7 broad gauge electrified tracks, that forms the intersection between Erode-Tiruchirapalli, Erode-Madurai and Salem-Karur. section.
caption: Entrance of Railway station
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