Located opposite the Tidel Park on Rajiv Gandhi Salai at Taramani, it exclusively serves the Chennai MRTS.

However, this was never realised as the project administration failed to include this requirement in the revised proposal for ballastless track.

Execution of the balance portion of work beyond Tiruvanmiyur had been delayed due to the sinkage of earth.

This led to operating trains only in the 'up' line for a long time until the construction of stations till Velachery.

[2] The station building consists of 1,392 square metres (14,980 sq ft) of parking area in its basement.