Chennai Central

Chennai Central is the home of the Southern Railway and the most important rail hub in South India. Trians from here connect the city to other states of India, while trains to other parts of Tamil Nadu are catered to by the Chennai Egmore station. Chennai Central is the main hub for the Chennai suburban railway. The building of the railway station, one of the landmarks of Chennai, was designed by the famous architect Henry Irwin. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (2288x1712, 752 KB) Summary Side view of Chennai central Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Chennai Chennai Central ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (2288x1712, 752 KB) Summary Side view of Chennai central Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Chennai Chennai Central ... Southern Railway is the first Railway Zone to be created in independant India on April 14, 1951. ... South India is a linguistic-cultural region of India that comprises the four Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and the Union Territory of Pondicherry, whose inhabitants are collectively referred to as South Indians. ... Chennai Egmore is a railway station in Chennai, South India. ... Chennai suburban is the complex railway system that services the city of Chennai and its suburbs. ... Originally, a landmark literally meant a geographic feature used by explorers and others to find their way back or through an area. ... Henry Irwin, a renowned architect of British India was born on 21st January, 1841, in Tarbett, Kerry County, Ireland. ...

This station is also noted for a whole range of amenities available within the premises. The station has book-shops, restaurants, accommodation, Internet browsing centers and even an essential commodities shopping mall. This station is completely Wi-Fi enabled. Recently, in 2005, the buildings were painted to a creamy yellow color, but concurring with the views of a campaign by citizens of Chennai and also to retain the old nostalgic charm, they were painted back to their original brick-red color, which was how the buildings were built originally. Wi-Fi (also WiFi, wifi, etc. ...

Chennai Central serves as a symbolic landmark for people in South India as this served as the main gateway for all people who travelled to South India during British times. Chennai Central has been greatly instrumental in earning Chennai the famous sobriquet "Gateway of the South"

Trains

Some of the trains from/to Chennai Central

Trains originating at Chennai Central

• Chennai-New Delhi Grand Trunk Express
• Chennai-New Delhi Tamil Nadu Express
• Chennai-New Delhi Rajdhani Express
• Chennai-Mumbai Dadar Express
• Chennai Mumbai Mail
• Chennai Mumbai Express
• Chennai-Howrah Coromandel Express
• Chennai-Coimbatore Intercity Express (dep 14:20)
• Chennai-Coimbatore Cheran Express (dep 22:10)
• Chennai-Coimbatore Kovai Express (dep 06:15)
• Chennai-Mettupalayam Nilgiri Express (also known as BLUE MOUNTAIN Express (via Coimbatore) (dep 21:00)
• Chennai-Ahmedabad Navjivan Express
• Chennai-Varanasi Ganga Kaveri Express
• Chennai-Tirupati Saptagiri Express
• Chennai-Hyderabad Charminar Express
• Chennai-Hyderabad Hyderabad Express
• Chennai-Erode Yercaud Express
• Chennai-Mangalore West Coast Express (via Coimbatore)
• Chennai Mangalore Mail
• Chennai-Bangalore Brindavan Express
• Chennai-Bangalore Lal Bagh Express
• Chennai-Bangalore Bangalore Mail
• Chennai-Bangalore Shatabdi Express
• Chennai-Mysore Shatabdi Express
• Chennai-Alleppey Alleppey Express
• Chennai-Trivandrum Trivandrum Mail
• Chennai - Jolarpet Yelagiri Express
• Chennai - Kakinada Circar Express
• Chennai - Jammu Tawi Andaman Express
• Chennai - Chandigarh/Dehradun Express
• Chennai - Howrah Mail
• Chennai - Varanasi Gangakaveri Express
• Chennai - Vijayawada Pinakini Express
• Chennai - Vishakapatnam Express
• Chennai - Jaipur Express
• Chennai - Lucknow Express
• Chennai - Bangalore Express(afternoon)
• Chennai - Tirupati Express
• Chennai - Vasco Express
• Chennai - Hubli Express
• Chennai - Mysore Kaveri Express
• Chennai - Bangalore Express(overnight)
• Chennai - Bangalore Mail
• Chennai - Vijayawada Jan Shatabdi Express
• Chennai - Nagercoil Express

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Trains passing through Chennai Central

• Alleppey Dhanbad Express
• Indore Trivandrum Ahilyanagari Express
• Gorakhpur-Trivandrum/Barauni-Ernakulam Raptisagar Express
• Trivandrum - Korba Express
• Ernakulam - Guwahati Express
• Trivandrum - Guwahati Express
• Bangalore - Guwahati Express
• Yeswantpur(Bangalore) - Rajendra Nagar(Patna) Sanghamitra Express
• Muzaffarpur - Yeswantpur Express
• Ernakulam - Patna Express
• Trivandrum - Howrah Express

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Layout

This station has 11 platforms to handle long distance trains and 6 platforms exclusively for suburban trains. The complex for suburban trains is popularly known as the Moore Market complex. There is a platform 2A between platforms 2 and 3; it is used to handle trains with lesser bogies like the New Delhi Rajdhani Exp., Vijayawada Jan Shatabdi, Bangalore/Mysore Shatabdis and the Gudur Passenger.

Chennai Central used to have trains with special deliveries until early 90's. The Brindavan Exp. used to have green colour coaches with a yellow stripe; Nilgiri Exp. (popularly known as Blue Mountain) had blue coaches. All trains now have blue coaches, except the Rajdhani Exp. and the Sapthagiri Exp., which poses a typical green / cream livery combination with a matching WAM4 6PE loco from Arakkonam(AJJ) shed. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

The building to the west of the railway station is the Ripon building, which houses the Chennai Corporation. To the east of the station lies the Southern Railway headquarters. The Chennai Corporation is situated in the Ripon Building in Chennai. ... Southern Railway is the first Railway Zone to be created in independant India on April 14, 1951. ...

Trivia

• It is a popular cliche/sentiment in Tamil films to show the picture of Central to indicate that a character in the movie has entered the city.

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See also

• Railway station layout

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