Metro train services to begin at 6 p.m. on Poonamallee-Vadapalani stretch

Chennai Metro Rail will begin the first train service on the Poonamallee-Vadapalani stretch of the phase II network at 6 a.m. from October 23. 

In a release, Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) said, based on the feedback received from commuters, the train service on this stretch will be advanced to 6:00 a.m. with effect from October 23, 2026. “The revised timings are intended to provide greater convenience to passengers and to facilitate early-morning travel towards Vadapalani and Poonamallee,” the release said.

The Hindu had recently reported on passengers demanding that train timings and frequency on the Poonamallee-Vadapalani stretch be improved at the earliest. Since the launch last week, Chennai Metro Rail’s train timings on the Poonamallee-Vadapalani stretch was 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. whereas passengers wanted the same timings as followed in the phase I network from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. 

Passengers also want the last service to be extended till 11 p.m. and the frequency too to be enhanced from the present 10 minutes during peak hours to six or seven minutes.