MADURAI: An innovative idea of creating a temple tower made by using railway metal scrap has become an attraction at Madurai railway station here.
The Coaching Depot team of Southern Railway’s Madurai Division showed their creativity through a temple ‘gopuram’ for which old railway materials and scrap were used. This temple tower sculpture is kept near the front gate of railway ffice and its is drawing good public attention.
This temple tower design was made using metal scrap collected from the mechanical and engineering departments, inlcuding M.S.sheets, C-channels, bolts, nuts, pipes, springs, rails and clips.
“It is a creative work carries out as part of ‘Swachchata Hi Seva’ 2025 cleanliness campaign and ‘Waste to Art’ iniatitative. It promotes the idea of converting waste into useful and artistics creations. BY choosing the ‘Gipuram’ design, the railway team in Madurai has connected the railway’s cleanliness and recycling mission with the cultural and spiritual indentity of Madurai,” a railway press release from Maurai Division has informed yesterday- October 9th 2025.
In 10 days time, the 13-member railway staff team had completed this work under the guidance of Divisional Mechanical Engineer in Madurai, the press release added.
Those who were involved in the work include senior technicians N.Ramesh, V.Arun Kumar and P.Kannan, technicians I R.Jerald Andrews, Binay Kumar and A.Justin Peter, welders Lakshmanan and Shanmugapandi, painter Essaki Raja and maintennance assistants- C.Thomas, Rupesh, Vikash Kumar Gupta and Gurumoorthy.
