Tamilnadu Transport

Roadways

The length of road network in Tamil Nadu is nearly 1.70 lakh kms. Private bus operators link the important cities and government buses ply the entire south. The inter-state buses run by State Express Transport Corporation connects Chennai with Karnataka, Kerala, and Andhra Pradesh.

Railways

Centralized at Chennai, the Southern Railways present network expands over a large area of India's Southern Peninsula, covering the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Pondicherry, a major portion of Karnataka and a small portion of Andhra Pradesh.

Tamil Nadu has a complete railway track length of 6,693-kms and there are 690 railway stations in the state. Main rail junctions in the State include Chennai, Madurai, Tiruchirapalli, Salem, Coimbatore, etc.

In Chennai, the Central Railway Station is 5-km from the city centre and trains from nearly all cities of India halt here. Broad gauge train services connect the city with New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkatta (Calcutta), Cochin, Thiruvananthapuram, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Lucknow, Guwahati and other important cities. The metre gauge train services cater to the south of Chennai, including Madurai, Rameshwaram, Tirunelveli and Tuticorin. The railhead for metre gauge services is situated at the Egmore station.