Virudhaachalam is a town in the Cuddalore to Salem Highway next to Neyveli in Tamil Nadu state in India. It is primarily a pilgrimage centre with an enormous Shiva temple, the Viruthagiriswarar temple, from which the name arose. The town is a good travel planning centre because it is linked to all the cities in Tamil Nadu by broad gauge railway network and good wide access roads. The town is also known for the large number of doctors, almost 100. The river Manimuthaaru flows through the town splitting it into two halves connected by a long bridge.
There are plenty of buses connecting from Chennai, Trichy, Salem, and Cuddalore.
A few buses come from Kovai, Madurai, Bangalore, Tirupati, and Tanjore.
Vridhachalam Junction is an important railway station in the Chennai to Kanyakumari Line.
You can get trains connecting to Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Mangalore, and Trivandrum.
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