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|country= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India]
|transport=[[Madras Railway]] and [[South Indian Railway]]
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'''Erode''' was annexed to the [[Madras Presidency]] in 1792 after the defeat of Tipu Sultan in the [[3rd Mysore War]]. It was the headquarters of the Erode taluk in [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?volume=10&objectid=DS405.1.I34_V10_362.gif Coimbatore District] during the British period.
The Erode Junction Station, on the [[Madras Railway]], opened 1861-62, which, in 1908, became the [[South Indian Railway]](SIR) [[Rail_gauge#Broad_Gauge|broad gauge (BG)]] '[[Jalarpet-Mangalore Mainline]]'.
The branch line to [[Trichinopoly]] was originally BG, converted in 1879 to metre gauge([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) to connect to the SIR MG network - this becoming the '[[Erode Branch Line SIR]]'.
Thus Erode Junction became an important transfer point between the [[South Indian Railway]] BG network and their MG network.
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