Guindy metro station is a

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railway station on the Blue Line of the

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, which opened on 21 September 2016 along with the elevated section on the Blue Line. The station is among the elevated stations coming up along corridor I of the Chennai Metro, Wimco Nagar–

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stretch. The station will serve the neighbourhoods of

Guindy Guindy is one of the most important neighborhoods of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, and is nicknamed as ''The Gateway to Chennai''. The Kathipara junction where Anna Salai, Mount-Poonamallee Road, Inner Ring Road, 100 Feet Road or Jawaharlal Nehru Roa ...

and

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The station

The 105-metre-long steel girder rail overbridge, which is the only such structure in the entire Chennai Metro system, lies near the station. The station is also the only one in the entire system that will have two skywalks providing access to the station—one near the Guindy Industrial Estate and the other near Race Course Road.

Station layout

References

External links

Official Website for Chennai Metro Rail Limited
{{Chennai Metro Chennai Metro stations Railway stations in Chennai

The station

Station layout

See also

References

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