Nungambakkam railway station

Nungambakkam
Southern Railways
History
Opened	Early 1900s
Electrified	1931
Previous names	South Indian Railway
Services
Preceding station Chennai Suburban Following station Chetpet towards Chennai Beach South Line Kodambakkam towards Tambaram, Chengalpattu Junction or Villupuram Junction
Route map Legend Chennai Beach — Villupuram North Line West Line 0.00 Chennai Beach High Court 1.80 Chennai Fort  MRTS  3.07 Chennai Central Green Line Blue Line 3.07 Chennai Park 3.07 Parktown MRTS 4.32 Chennai Egmore Green Line 6.56 Chetput Purple Line Cooum River 8.15 Nungambakkam 9.68 Orange Line 11.29 Mambalam 12.90 Saidapet Adyar River 15.01 Guindy Blue Line 17.12 St. Thomas Mount Green Line Red Line  MRTS  18.75 Pazhavanthangal 20.04 Meenambakkam 21.22 Tirusulam Blue Line 23.15 Pallavaram 25.35 Chromepet Blue Line 27.36 Tambaram Sanatorium 29.14 Tambaram Blue Line 32.64 Perungalathur Blue Line 34.44 Vandalur Blue Line 37.48 Kilambakkam Blue Line 37.50 Urapakkam 40.41 Guduvancheri 43.94 Potheri 45.85 Kattangulathur 46.96 Maraimalai Nagar 51.48 Singaperumal Koil 55.59 Paranur 59.84 Chengalpattu Junction to Arakkonam 63.00 Tirumani 68.37 Ottivakkam 73.08 Padalam 80.83 Karunguzhi 84.48 Maduranthakam 91.07 Pakkam 95.37 Melmaruvathur 98.21 Acharapakkam 104.27 Tozhuppedu 109.44 Karasangal 113.86 Olakur 118.59 Panchalam 125.48 Tindivanam 134.84 Mailam 143.44 Perani 149.92 Vikravandi 156.44 Mundiyampakkam to Katpadi 162.76 Viluppuram Junction
Location

Nungambakkam Railway Station is one of the railway stations of the

.

History

Nungambakkam railway station was constructed when the electric suburban railway service was laid between 1928 and 1931.

Safety issues

Despite being one of the busier railway stations within downtown Chennai, the station lacked many safety factors, including lack of a closed-circuit television camera. The murder of Swathy, a 24-year-old computer engineer who was hacked to death by a then unidentified young man in the station premises on the morning of 24 June 2016 in full daylight, received wide media attention and publicity, leading to the public outcry on the safety levels at all suburban stations.^[3][4]

The station

Platforms

There are a total of 4 platforms and 4 tracks. The platforms are connected by

. These platforms are built to accumulate 24 coaches express train. The platforms are equipped with modern facility like display board of arrival and departure of trains.

Station layout

G	Street level	Exit/Entrance & ticket counter
P1	FOB, Side platform | Doors will open on the left
	Platform 1	Towards → Chennai Beach next station is Chetpet
	FOB, Island platform | P1 Doors will open on the left/right | P2 Doors will open on the right
	Platform 2	Towards ← Villuppuram Jn next station is Kodambakkam
	Platform 3	Towards → Chennai Egmore
	FOB, Island platform | P3 and P4 | (Express Line)
	Platform 4	Towards ← Chengalpattu Junction
P1

See also

• Chennai Suburban Railway
• Railway stations in Chennai

References

External links

• Nungambakkam railway station on IndiaRailInfo.com
• Local Train timings from/to Nungambakkam Archived 31 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine