Chennai Central is the home of the Southern
Railways and the most important rail hub in South India.
Trains 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.
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.
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"
Contents
1 Trains
1.1 Trains originating at Chennai Central
1.2 Trains passing through Chennai Central
2 Layout
3 Trivia
4 See also
Trains
Some of the trains from/to Chennai Central
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding
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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)
Chenni-Coimbatore (On Saturdays dep 22:20)
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
Trains passing through Chennai Central
Alleppey Dhanbad/Tatanagar Express
Indore Trivandrum Ahilyanagari Express
Gorakhpur-Trivandrum/Barauni-Ernakulam Raptisagar Express
Trivandrum - Korba Express
Coimbatore - Jaipur 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
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 liveries
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.
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.
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