Indira Nagar | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 12°59′47″N 80°14′59″E / 12.996456°N 80.249596°E / 12.996456; 80.249596 | ||||||||||||||
Platforms | Side platform Platform-1 → Velachery ** Platform-2 → Chennai Beach ** (Further extenstion to St. Thomas Mount in the near future) (280 m) | ||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
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Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||||||
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Opened | 26 January 2004 | ||||||||||||||
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Indira Nagar is a railway station on the Chennai MRTS. Located opposite the Institute of Chemical Technology on Rajiv Gandhi Salai (OMR), it exclusively serves the Chennai MRTS. The station can also be accessed through canal bank road, Indira Nagar.
Indira Nagar station was opened on 26 January 2004, as part of the second phase of the Chennai MRTS network.
The elevated station is built on the western banks of Buckingham Canal. The length of the platform is 280 m.[1] The station building consists of 1,350 sq m of parking area in its basement.[2]
Indira Nagar track layout | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Station with two tracks and two side platforms |
G | Street level | Exit/Entrance |
L1 | Mezzanine | Fare control, Station ticket counters and Automatic ticket vending machines |
L2 | Side platform | Doors will open on the left ![]() | |
Platform 2 Northbound |
Towards → Chennai Beach next station is Kasturba Nagar | |
Platform 1 Southbound |
Towards ← Velacherry next station is Thiruvanmiyur (to be further extended to St. Thomas Mount railway station in the near future) | |
Side platform | Doors will open on the left ![]() | ||
L2 |
Indira Nagar station is the thirteenth station on the MRTS line to Velachery. In the return direction from Velachery, it is currently the fifth station towards Chennai Beach station[3]
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