AG – DMS metro station

Etymology[edit]

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Route map
	Legend
	Chennai Suburban Railway
	West South Line
	Chennai Suburban Railway
	South Line & South West Line
	Chennai Suburban Railway
	South Line & South West Line
	Chennai Suburban Railway
	South Line

AG – DMS
; AG – DMS
Chennai Metro station
General information
Location	Chokkalingam Nagar, Teynampet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600086; India
Coordinates	13°02′41″N 80°14′53″E / 13.0446755°N 80.2479706°E
Owned by	Chennai Metro
Operated by	Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL)
Line(s)	Blue Line
Platforms	Island platform; Platform-1 → Chennai International Airport (to be extended to Kilambakkam in the future); Platform-2 → Wimco Nagar Depot
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Underground, Double track
Parking	No
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	SGM
History
Opened	25 May 2018; 5 years ago
Electrified	Single-phase 25 kV, 50 Hz AC through overhead catenary
Services
Route map
Route map
	Legend
	Chennai Suburban Railway
	West South Line
	Chennai Suburban Railway
	South Line & South West Line
	Chennai Suburban Railway
	South Line & South West Line
	Chennai Suburban Railway
	South Line
Location

AG – DMS is an underground metro station on the North-South Corridor of the Blue Line of Chennai Metro in Chennai, India. This station serves the neighbourhoods of Teynampet and T. Nagar.

The station is named as AG – DMS because of the presence of the Accountant General's (AG) Office and the office of the Directorate of Medical and Rural Health Services (DMS) in the vicinity.

The station has a length of 380 meters. It is one of the two stations in Phase I of Chennai Metro, the other being the Puratchi Thalaivar Dr. M.G. Ramachandran Central metro station, that measure a length of 380 meters or more.^[1] The station was opened for public on 25 May 2018.^[2]

AG-DMS track layout

Legend

Station with two tracks and one Island platform

G	Street level	Exit/Entrance
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent, Ticket/token, shops
P	Platform 1 Southbound	Towards → Chennai International Airport next station is Teynampet (to be further extended to Kilambakkam in the future)
	Island platform \| Doors will open on the right
	Platform 2 Northbound	Towards ← Wimco Nagar Depot next station is Thousand Lights

List of available ATM at AAG – DMS metro station are

Metropolitan Transport Corporation (Chennai) bus routes number 1B, 11A, 11ACT, 11G, 11H, 13B, 18A, 18D, 18E, 18K, 18R, 23C, 23V, 29N, 41C, 41D, 41F, 51J, 51P, 52, 52B, 52K, 52P, 54, 54D, 54M, 60, 60A, 60D, 60H, 88Ccut, 88K, 88R, 118A, 188, 221, 221H, A51, B18, B29NGS, D51, E18, M51R, serves the station from nearby DMS bus stand.^[3]

AG – DMS metro station Entry/exits
Gate No-A1	Gate No-A2	Gate No-A3	Gate No-A4
DMS

^ "CMRL's compact stations have their own fan club". The Hindu. Chennai. 29 June 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
^ Sekar, Sunitha (25 May 2018). "Chennai Metro Rail opens two underground stretches". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 26 May 2008. Retrieved 28 February 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

to Thousand Lights

to Teynampet

Official website
UrbanRail.Net – descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations.
Google. "AG-DMS metro station" (Map). Google Maps. Google.

[1] "CMRL's compact stations have their own fan club". The Hindu. Chennai. 29 June 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2018.

[2] Sekar, Sunitha (25 May 2018). "Chennai Metro Rail opens two underground stretches". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 29 January 2019.

[3] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 26 May 2008. Retrieved 28 February 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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