[1][2] It serves Maniyachchi, located in Thoothukudi district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

[3] 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] The station is located on the Ottantham-Maniyachchi Road at a distance of 30 kilometres (19 mi) from Thoothukudi, its district headquarters.

[3] This article about a railway station in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu is a stub.