Everyone knows that in few weeks we are going to celebrate our Independence Day. In the event of upcoming Independence Day i like to share the below information. There was a real incident behind this station name. Many of us aware about this story. Just thought of sharing it.
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Vanchi Maniyachchi junction railway station is a junction railway station in Maniyachchi of Thoothukudi district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu
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station is named after the Tamil freedom fighter Vanchinathan and was the site 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
On 17 June 1911, ashe boarded the 9-30 a.m. Maniyachchi mail at Tirunelveli junction. With him was his wife, Mary Lillian Patterson, who had arrived from Ireland only a few days earlier. They were on their way to kodaikanal where their four children, molly, Arthur, Sheila, and Herbert, lived in a rented bungalow. At 10:38 am, the train pulled in at Maniyachchi. The Ceylon boat mail was due to arrive at 10:48 am. As the ashes sat facing each other in the first-class carriage, waiting for the boat mail to arrive, a neatly dressed man with tufted hair and another young man wearing a dhoti approached the carriage. The former boarded the carriage and pulled out a Belgian-made browning automatic pistol. The bullet hit ashe in the chest and he collapsed. The sound of the pistol shot was absorbed by the howling wind.
After the shooting, Vanchinathan ran along the platform and took cover in the latrine. Sometime later he was found dead, having shot himself in the mouth. The pistol recovered from him was empty without any bullets as he just planned to kill himself after killing ashe and had no intention to hurt anyone other than ashe
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