| Villivakkam | |
| Style: | Indian Railways |
| Type: | Indian Railways and Chennai Suburban Railway station |
| Address: | Villivakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Coordinates: | 13.1103°N 80.2092°W |
| Mapframe-Marker: | rail |
| Mapframe-Marker-Color: |
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| Mapframe-Zoom: | 14 |
| Map State: | collapsed |
| Owned: | Ministry of Railways, Indian Railways |
| Line: | West, West North and West South lines of Chennai Suburban Railway |
| Platform: | 4 |
| Tracks: | 5 |
| Connections: | Villivakkam metro station |
| Structure: | Standard on-ground station |
| Parking: | Available |
| Code: | VLK |
| Zone: | Southern Railways |
| Electrified: | 29 November 1979 |
| Former: | South Indian Railway |
| Passengers: | 32,000/day |
| Pass Year: | 2013 |
| Mapframe: | yes |
Villivakkam railway station is a railway station on the Chennai Central–Arakkonam section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network a city of Chennai in India. Located 9 km from Chennai Central railway station, the station serves the neighbourhood of Villivakkam, Kolathur and Padi. It has an elevation of 10.25 m above sea level.
The first lines in the station were electrified on 29 November 1979, with the electrification of the Chennai Central–Tiruvallur section. Additional lines at the station were electrified on 2 October 1986, with the electrification of the Villivakkam–Avadi section.[1]
The station has a foot overbridge for pedestrian, a level crossing and a vehicular subway. The vehicular subway, whose construction was started on 4 December 2007 and which replaced the previous level crossing 2 (LC2),[2] was opened to traffic on 19 June 2012 and is located on the western side of the station.[3] The 447.50-m-long subway linking north Villivakkam with south Villivakkam was built at a cost of 390 million, which also has a 2.5-m-wide bicycle lane. The level crossing 1 (LC1), located at the eastern side of the station (between Villivakkam and Perambur Loco Works stations), is being replaced with a 460-meter-long road overbridge being built at a cost of 590 million. The level crossing is located adjacent to the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) and connects several residential areas in both Villivakkam and Kolathur. The road overbridge will be 8.5 meters wide (with a carriageway of 7.5 meters) and will have 11 pillars. The bridge connects East Seeyalam Street with Villivakkam East Railway Crossing Road in Kumaran Nagar.[4]
About 900 tickets are issued every day at the station, of which 400 are from the northern side. In 2002, a ticket counter was opened on the northern side. However, it was closed down in 2005 owing to low patronage.[5]
There are a total of 4 platforms and 4 tracks. The platforms are connected by foot overbridge. These platforms are built to accumulate 24 coaches express train.
| G | North Entrance Street level | Exit/Entrance & ticket counter |
| P | FOB, Side platform | P4 – Express Lines|-| width="100" style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" |Platform 4| width="500" style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" |Towards → MGR Chennai Central|-| width="100" style="border-bottom:solid 1px white;" |Platform 3| width="500" style="border-bottom:solid 1px white;" |Towards ← Arakkonam Junction / Jolarpettai Junction|-| colspan="2" style="border-top:solid 2px black;border-right:solid 2px black;border-left:solid 2px black;border-bottom:solid 2px black;text-align:center;" |FOB, Island platform | P2 Doors will open on the left | P3 – Express Lines|-| width="100" style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" |Platform 2| style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" width="500" |Towards → Chennai Central MMC next station is Perambur Loco Works|-| width="100" style="border-bottom:solid 1px white;" |Platform 1| style="border-bottom:solid 1px white;" width="500" |Towards ← Arakkonam Junction next station is Korattur|-| colspan="2" width="100" style="border-top:solid 2px black;border-right:solid 2px black;border-left:solid 2px black;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" align="center" |FOB, Side platform | P1 Doors will open on the left | |
| G | South Entrance Street level | Exit/Entrance & ticket counter |
The nearby Kolathur area has around 500,000 people residing in 54 colonies, and about 25,000 people are daily using the service of Chennai suburban railway trains.[6] As of 2013, the station handles about 32,000 passengers a day.[7]