Alandur metro station


Arignar Anna Alandur Metro Station
Chennai Metro station
A train arriving at the station
General information
LocationAlandur, Chennai - 600016, Tamil Nadu,
 India
Coordinates13°00′15″N 80°12′05″E / 13.004202°N 80.201471°E / 13.004202; 80.201471
Owned byChennai Metro Rail Limited
Operated byChennai Metro Rail Limited
Line(s)Blue Line Green Line Red Line  Inter Corridor Line 
PlatformsSide platform
Platform-1Chennai International Airport (to be extended to Kilambakkam in the future)
Platform-2Wimco Nagar Depot
Platform-3St. Thomas Mount
Platform-4M.G.R Chennai Central
Platform-5Sholinganallur
Platform-6
Madhavaram Milk Colony
• Pattabiram (proposed branch line to construct in future)
Tracks4
Construction
Structure typeElevated, Double track
Platform levels2
Other information
Station codeSAL
Websitehttp://chennaimetrorail.org
History
Opened29 June 2015 (2015-06-29) (Green Line)
21 September 2016 (2016-09-21) (Blue Line)
Passengers
10000/day (2018)
Services
Preceding station Chennai Metro Following station
Guindy Blue Line Nanganallur Road
Blue Line
(Future Service)
Nanganallur Road
towards Kilambakkam
Ekkattuthangal Green Line St. Thomas Mount
Terminus
Butt Road Red Line
(Under Construction)
St. Thomas Mount
Butt Road
towards Pattabiram
Red Line
(Future service)
Location

Arignar Anna Alandur Metro, commonly known as the Alandur Metro, is an elevated metro station that is part of the Blue Line and the Green Line of the Chennai Metro, and serves as an interchange station between the two lines. The station is one of the two metro stations where the two lines intersect, the other being the Chennai Central metro station. It is the city's first multi-level railway station. It is the only station where passengers from the two corridors can swap the direction of travel. On 31 July 2020, It has been named by Government of Tamil Nadu as Arignar Anna Alandur Metro to honor the DMK founder and the former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu C. N. Annadurai.