It serves the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) that is one of the largest railroad carriage and locomotive manufacturers in the world.

The Perambur region has been a part of the Chennai city since the middle of the 18th century.

The Southern Railway's workshop located here was established in the year 1856 to serve the erstwhile Madras and Southern Mahratta (M&SM) Railway Company and was one of the first major industrial units of the early-20th-century Madras.

The lines at the station were electrified on 29 November 1979, with the electrification of the Chennai Central–Tiruvallur section.

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