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Nemilichery railway station is one of the railway stations of the Chennai Central–Arakkonam section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. It serves the neighbourhood of Nemilichery, Thiruninravur a suburb of Chennai, and is located 27 km west of Chennai Central railway station. It has an elevation of 32.05 m above sea level.

Nemilichery
Indian Railways and Chennai Suburban Railway station
General information
Location	Nemilichery, Thiruninravur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Coordinates	13°7′17″N 80°2′43″E
Owned by	Ministry of Railways, Indian Railways
Line(s)	West, West North and West South lines of Chennai Suburban Railway
Construction
Structure type	Standard on-ground station
Parking	Available
Other information
Station code	NEC
Fare zone	Southern Railways
History
Opened	2010
Electrified	29 November 1979[1]
Previous names	South Indian Railway

Presently, Nemilichery, with three temporary shelters, is only a halt station and not a full-fledged one.[2] However, all the 71 pairs of slow suburban trains halt at the station.[3]

History

Nemilichery railway station is the newest railway station in the Chennai Central–Arakkonam section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. With the two nearest railway stations of Pattabiram and Thirunindravur on the eastern and western sides, respectively, lying 4.01 km apart, there was a demand for a new railway station in the midst of these two stations, which would benefit more than 100,000 people in the neighbourhood.[4] Southern Railway gave its in principle approval for the construction of a new railway station in 2002 and the site inspection was carried out by the then minister of state for railways, A. K. Moorthy, in 2003.[5] The railway station was initially estimated at a cost of ₹ 5.8 million, with the Jaya Group of Educational Institutions contributing ₹ 2.5 million as public contribution towards the construction.[6] The final cost of construction of the station, however, was about ₹ 10 million,[7] including ₹ 3.574 million towards earth work for laying the platform and ₹ 3.828 million towards shifting of tracks.[4]

The station was inaugurated on 5 February 2010.[7] The lines at the station, however, were electrified on 29 November 1979, with the electrification of the Chennai Central–Tiruvallur section.[1]

The subway connecting the two sides of the neighbourhoods was completed by March 2016 and was commissioned to public use on 21 April 2016[8]

Neighbourhoods

The station serves the neighbourhood, including East Thiruninravur, Srinath Nagar, TI Nagar, Gomathi Amman Nagar, Ambal Nagar, Nehru Nagar, Nemilichery, Annambedu, West Thandurai, Abirami Nagar, and Rajankuppam.

See also

• Chennai Suburban Railway
• Railway stations in Chennai

References

External links

• Nemilichery station at Indiarailinfo.com

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