Arumbakkam metro station

Construction history

The station

Commercial hub

Entry/Exit

References

External links

Station layout

Facilities

Route map
	Legend
	Chennai Suburban Railway
	South Line & South West Line
	Blue Line
	MRTS
	Chennai Suburban Railway
	South Line & South West Line
	Chennai Suburban Railway
	South Line & South West Line

Arumbakkam
; Arumbakkam
Chennai Metro station
	Arumbakkam metro station
General information
Location	Jawaharlal Nehru Rd,Vinayagapuram, Arumbakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600106
Coordinates	13°3′44″N 80°12′42″E / 13.06222°N 80.21167°E
Owned by	Chennai Metro
Operated by	Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL)
Line(s)	Green Line Inter Corridor Line
Platforms	Side platform; Platform-1 → overhead catenary
Services
Route map
Route map
	Legend
	Chennai Suburban Railway
	South Line & South West Line
	Blue Line
	MRTS
	Chennai Suburban Railway
	South Line & South West Line
	Chennai Suburban Railway
	South Line & South West Line
Location

Arumbakkam is an elevated metro station on the South-East Corridor of the Green Line of Chennai Metro in Chennai, India. This station will serve the neighbourhoods of Vinayagapuram, Choolaimedu and MMDA Colony.

The station was constructed by Consolidated Constructed Consortium (CCCL). The station attained structural completion in September 2013. The consolidated cost of the station along with the stations of Koyambedu, CMBT, Vadapalani and Ashok Nagar was ₹ 1,395.4 million.^[1]

The station is being constructed as an elevated station on the arterial Inner Ring Road. The station will have ground, concourse and platform levels. The station will have four entry and exit points, four lifts and eight escalators; there will also be a ramp to facilitate the movement of disabled people from the ground level to the concourse level.^[1] Elevation of the platforms will be about 15 m from the ground level and the total length of the platforms will be 140 m.^[2]

Arumbakkam track layout

Legend

Station with two tracks and two side platforms

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
L1	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent, Metro Card vending machines, crossover
L2	Side platform \| Doors will open on the left
	Platform 2 Northbound	Towards → Chennai Central next station is Puratchi Thalaivi Dr. J.Jayalalithaa CMBT
	Platform 1 Southbound	Towards ← St. Thomas Mount next station is Vadapalani
	Side platform \| Doors will open on the left
L2

Elevator
Ticket booking Machines
Refreshmentaries
Atm

Arumbakkam station is one of the five stations in the first phase of the Chennai Metro project identified to be converted into commercial hubs, the others being CMBT, Alandur, Ekkattuthangal, and Ashok Nagar. Two nine-floor buildings, measuring 51,379 sq ft and 32,721 sq ft, are proposed to be built at the Arumbakkam station.^[3]

^ ^a ^b "Arumbakkam metro station almost complete". The Hindu. Chennai. 10 September 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
^ Hemalatha, Karthikeyan; V Ayyappan (17 January 2013). "All roads to lead to metro stations". The Times of India. Chennai: The Times Group. Archived from the original on 1 February 2015. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
^ TNN (23 September 2014). "In less than a year, you can park, shop and ride at metro rail stations". The Times of India. Chennai: The Times Group. Retrieved 3 February 2015.

to Jayalalithaa CMBT

to Vadapalani

Official website

UrbanRail.Net – descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations.
Google. "Arumbakkam metro station" (Map). Google Maps. Google.

[Hindu_ArukbnakkamStnAlmostComplete-1] "Arumbakkam metro station almost complete". The Hindu. Chennai. 10 September 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2015.

[TOI_AllRoadsLeadToMetro-2] Hemalatha, Karthikeyan; V Ayyappan (17 January 2013). "All roads to lead to metro stations". The Times of India. Chennai: The Times Group. Archived from the original on 1 February 2015. Retrieved 18 January 2013.

[3] TNN (23 September 2014). "In less than a year, you can park, shop and ride at metro rail stations". The Times of India. Chennai: The Times Group. Retrieved 3 February 2015.

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