Alandur metro station

Arignar Anna Alandur Metro Station
Chennai Metro station
A train arriving at the station
General information
Location	Alandur, Chennai - 600016, Tamil Nadu,  India
Coordinates	13°00′15″N 80°12′05″E / 13.004202°N 80.201471°E / 13.004202; 80.201471
Owned by	Chennai Metro Rail Limited
Operated by	Chennai Metro Rail Limited
Line(s)	Blue Line Green Line Red Line  Inter Corridor Line
Platforms	Side platform Platform-1 → Chennai International Airport (to be extended to Kilambakkam in the future) Platform-2 → Wimco Nagar Depot Platform-3 → St. Thomas Mount Platform-4 → M.G.R Chennai Central Platform-5 → Sholinganallur Platform-6 → • Madhavaram Milk Colony • Pattabiram
Tracks	4
Construction
Structure type	Elevated, Double track
Platform levels	2
Other information
Station code	SAL
Website	http://chennaimetrorail.org
History
Opened	29 June 2015; 9 years ago (2015-06-29) (Green Line) 21 September 2016; 7 years ago (2016-09-21) (Blue Line)
Passengers
10000/day (2018)[1]
Services
Preceding station Chennai Metro Following station Guindy towards Wimco Nagar Depot Blue Line Nanganallur Road towards Chennai International Airport Blue Line (Future Service) Nanganallur Road towards Kilambakkam Ekkattuthangal towards Chennai Central Green Line St. Thomas Mount Terminus Butt Road towards Madhavaram Milk Colony Red Line St. Thomas Mount towards Sholinganallur
Route map Legend Chennai Suburban Railway West South Line Wimco Nagar Depot Wimco Nagar Depot Wimco Nagar Tiruvottriyur Thiruvottriyur Theradi Kaladipet Toll Gate New Washermanpet Tondiarpet Sir Theagaraya College Washermanpet Mannadi High Court Chennai Suburban Railway South Line & South West Line M.G.R Central Green Line Green Line Cooum River Government Estate LIC Thousand Lights Purple Line AG – DMS Teynampet Nandanam Orange Line Saidapet Adyar River Little Mount Guindy Chennai Suburban Railway South Line & South West Line Kathipara Junction Arignar Anna Alandur Green LineRed Line Green Line Nanganallur Road Meenambakkam Chennai International Airport Pallavaram Kothandam Nagar Chromepet Mahalakshmi Colony Thiru.Vi.Ka Nagar Tambaram Irumbuliyur Peerkankaranai Perungalathur Vandalur Arignar Anna Zoological Park Kilambakkam Chennai Suburban Railway South Line Legend Chennai Suburban Railway South Line & South West Line Blue Line M.G.R Central Blue Line MRTS Egmore Chennai Suburban Railway South Line & South West Line Nehru Park Kilpauk Medical College Purple Line Pachaiyappa's College Shenoy Nagar Anna Nagar East Anna Nagar Tower Thirumangalam Red Line Chennai Port-Maduravoyal Expressway Cooum River NH 4: EVR Periyar Salai Koyambedu depot Koyambedu Red Line Jayalalithaa CMBT Arumbakkam Vadapalani Orange Line Ashok Nagar Adyar River Ekkattuthangal Kathipara Junction Arignar Anna Alandur Blue LineRed Line Blue Line St. Thomas Mount  MRTS  Red Line Chennai Suburban Railway South Line & South West Line
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.^[2] It is the only station where passengers from the two corridors can swap the direction of travel.^[3] 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.^[4]