Thirumayilai metro station

Thirumayilai
Template:Chennai Metro Infobox station line
Location	Mylapore, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600004 India
Coordinates	13.0368°N 80.2676°E / 13.0368; 80.2676
Owned by	Chennai Metro
Operated by	Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL)
Line(s)	Template:Rcb Template:Rcb
Platforms	2 levels with Side platform each and 1 level with Island platform Platform-1 → Madhavaram Milk Colony Platform-2 → Poonamallee Bypass Platform-3 → Lighthouse Platform-4 → SIPCOT II
Tracks	4
Connections	Thirumayilai
Construction
Structure type	Underground, Double Track
Other information
Website	chennaimetrorail.org
Electrified	Yes
Services
Route map Template:Chennai Metro Orange Line Route
Location

Thirumayilai metro station is a Metro railway station on the Yellow Line of the Chennai Metro. The station is among the underground stations along corridor I of the Chennai Metro, Lighthouse–Poonamallee Bypass stretch. The station serves the neighbourhoods of Mylapore.

The station is a key interchange linking Corridor 3 and Corridor 4 of the Chennai Metro network and, at 115 ft below the ground, will be the deepest metro station in Chennai.

History

Construction began in 2021 and the station remained an engineering challenge during its construction owing to its depth cut through rocky soil. Owing to these difficulties, the station is expected to be completed by 2027.

Construction

The T-shaped station will be built on four levels with four tunnels stacked one above the other, below the Luz Junction (junction connecting Luz and the Canal Bank Road) in the neighbourhood of Mylapore. Upon construction, the station will be the deepest metro station in Chennai, at 35 meters below street level, surpassing the Chennai Central metro station, which is 30 meters below street level. This is because the rails in corridor 3 run as stacked tunnels, with one track located 17 metres below the ground (first level, or platform 1) and another 35 metres below (third level, or platform 3). The tracks in corridor 4 will be in parallel tunnels (second level, or platform 2) built between platforms 1 and 3.

Station layout

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P1 Towards Template:Stl P# Towards Template:Stl ** P# Towards Template:Stl P4 Towards Template:Stl **
P1 - Station B2 floor with a track and side platform P# - Station B3 floor with two tracks and one Island platform P4 - Station B4 floor with a track and side platform P1 & P4 - Purple Line | P# and P# - Yellow Line ** Under Construction

G	Street level	Exit/Entrance
B1	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent, Metro Card vending machines, crossover
B2	Side platform | Doors will open on the left
	Platform 1 Northbound	Towards → Template:Stl Next Station: Radhakrishnan Road Junction
B3	Platform # Westbound	Towards ← Template:Stl ** Next Station: Template:Stl
	Island platform | P# & P# doors will open on the left
	Platform # Eastbound	Towards → Template:Stl Next Station: Template:Stl
B4	Platform 4 Southbound	Towards ← Template:Stl Next Station: Template:Stl
	Side platform | Doors will open on the left
B4	Note:	** (Further extension to Template:Stl in the future)

The station

The station will be located at a depth of 35 metres (115 ft) below the ground with four levels, namely, a concourse level and three platform levels. The first (uppermost) level will be at a depth of 17 metres (56 ft) consisting of the Madhavaram–SIPCOT upper track. The middle level will be at a depth of 24 metres (79 ft) and will consist of the Lighthouse–Poonamallee dual lines. The third (lowermost) level will be at a depth of 35 metres (115 ft) consisting of the Madhavaram–SIPCOT lower track. The station will be spread over an area of 4854.4 square meters. While most other stations in phase II has only two entry/exit points, the Thirumayilai station alone will have five entry/exit points.

See also

• List of Chennai metro stations
• Railway stations in Chennai
• Chennai Mass Rapid Transit System
• Chennai Monorail
• Chennai Suburban Railway
• Transport in Chennai

External links

• chennaimetrorail.org
• UrbanRail.Net – descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations.