Nemilichery railway station is the newest railway station in the Chennai Central–Arakkonam section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. With the two nearest railway stations of and on the eastern and western sides, respectively, lying 4.01 km apart, there was a demand for a new railway station in the midst of these two stations, which would benefit more than 100,000 people in the neighbourhood.
Southern Railway gave its in principle approval for the construction of a new railway station in 2002 and the site inspection was carried out by the then minister of state for railways,
A. K. Moorthy, in 2003. The railway station was initially estimated at a cost of 5.8 million, with the Jaya Group of Educational Institutions contributing 2.5 million as public contribution towards the construction. The final cost of construction of the station, however, was about 10 million, The lines at the station, however, were electrified on 29 November 1979, with the electrification of the Chennai Central–Tiruvallur section. The subway connecting the two sides of the neighbourhoods was completed by March 2016 and was commissioned to public use on 21 April 2016 == Station Layout ==