Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta: India’s Unique Railway Station With A 28-letter Name

The experience of travelling by railway in India is very special for everyone. Here, the railway is not just a means of transport but is like a lifeline for every person, which helps both the rich and the poor to reach their destination. While travelling by train, there are many railway stations in between. Some are small, some are big, whose names people remember. But there is a railway station in India whose name you will not be able to remember hearing once as it is one of the offbeat railway stations with the longest name. As per the reports, the name of this station is 28 letters. Let’s know more about this station.

The name of the station is Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta Railway Station, Venkata Narasimha Rajuvaripet Railway Station, or V N Rajuvaripeta Railway Station (Station Code: VKZ). This railway station is on the Andhra Pradesh-Tamil Nadu border. It is on the Renigunta-Arakkonam section of Southern Railway, with the distinction of having the second longest name among all stations on the Indian Railways, following the renaming of Chennai Central to Puratchi Thalaivar Dr M.G. Ramachandran Central railway station in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

In railway parlance, it is a flag station. It is unsignalled, and passenger trains halt here, but mail trains and express trains do not halt here.

However, this is not the only station with such a big name. Indian Railways changed the name of Chennai Central Railway Station to Puratchi Thalaivar Dr. M.G. Ramachandran Central Railway Station on April 5, 2019. The name change was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a political rally in Kancheepuram on March 6, 2019, and was in honour of the former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and AIADMK founder, M. G. Ramachandran. The station’s name is now the second longest in the world, after Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch in Wales. The name contains 58 alphabets.

It is located on the island of Anglesey in Wales, and its name only has 51 letters in Welsh, as “ch” and “ll” are considered single letters in the language. The name is considered to be quite descriptive as it tells the person the town’s exact location, standing for Saint Mary’s Church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio of the red cave.