Guindy metro station explained


Guindy
Style:Chennai Metro
Address:Guindy Flyover, Race View Colony, Guindy, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600032
Coordinates:13.0093°N 80.2132°W
Owned:Chennai Metro
Operator:Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL)
Platforms:Side platform
Platform-1 → Chennai International Airport (to be extended to Kilambakkam in the future)
Platform-2 → Wimco Nagar Depot
Tracks:2
Structure:Elevated, Double track
Code:SGU
Electrified:Single-phase 25 kV, 50 Hz AC through overhead catenary
Accessible:Yes
Map State:collapsed
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Marker:rail
Mapframe-Zoom:14

Guindy is an elevated metro station on the North-South Corridor of the Blue Line of Chennai Metro in Chennai, India, which opened on 21 September 2016. This station will serve the neighbourhoods of Guindy and Velachery.

The station

The 105-metre-long steel girder rail overbridge, which is the only such structure in the entire Chennai Metro system, lies near the station.[1]

The station is also the only one in the entire system that will have two skywalks providing access to the station—one near the Guindy Industrial Estate and the other near Race Course Road.[2]

Station layout

GStreet levelExit/Entrance
valign=topL1valign=topMezzaninevalign=topFare control, station agent, Metro Card vending machines, crossover
L2Side platform Doors will open on the left
Platform 1
Southbound
Towards → Chennai International Airport
Next Station: Arignar Anna Alandur Change at the next station for
(to be further extended to Kilambakkam in the future)
Platform 2
Northbound
Towards ← Wimco Nagar Depot
Next Station: Little Mount
Side platform Doors will open on the left
L2

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Metro Rail Set to Bridge Gap on Guindy Line . The New Indian Express . Chennai. Express Publications . 2 September 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140905003524/http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/Metro-Rail-Set-to-Bridge-Gap-on-Guindy-Line/2014/09/02/article2410602.ece. dead. 5 September 2014. 4 October 2014.
  2. News: Sekar . Sunitha . Skywalks for three Chennai Metro stations . The Hindu . Chennai . 13 August 2014 . 4 October 2014.