In the beginning there was Madras Central.
It became Chennai Central in the 1990s.
Someone must have got ideas from this :
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And now we have:
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To be really accurate, it should replace MGR by Marudur Gopala Ramachandran. Maybe one could add Menon at the end.
However, official railway sites such as NTSE and IRCTC prefer to call it by something shorter, such as MGR Chennai Central. I doubt if boards on trains use the full form.
Continuing in the same vein, we can look forward to
Kalaignar Dr Muthuvel Karunanidhi Egmore* Railway Station
and
Puratchi Thalaivi Dr Jayalalithaa Jayaram Amma Tambaram Railway Station.
*Eshumbur if one uses the original Tamil name, as you can see from the Hindi sign here:
If this picks up in the rest of the country, there would be further new names such as Atal Behari Vajpayee Gwalior and (God forbid) Pratibha Patil Amravati.
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