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Thirumayilai
Chennai Metro station
General information
Location	Mylapore, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600004 India
Owned by	Chennai Metro
Operated by	Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL)
Line(s)	Purple Line   Orange Line
Platforms	Island platform Platform-1 → SIPCOT 2 Platform-2 → Madhavaram Milk Colony Platform-3 → Parandur Airport Platform-4 → Lighthouse
Tracks	4
Construction
Structure type	Underground, Double Track
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Website	chennaimetrorail.org
History
Electrified	Yes
Services
Preceding station Chennai Metro Following station Radhakrishnan Road Junctiontowards Madhavaram Milk Colony Purple Line Mandaivelitowards SIPCOT 2 Kutchery Roadtowards Lighthouse Orange Line Alwarpettowards Poonamallee Bypass

Thirumayilai metro station is a Metro railway station on the Orange 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 2023 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 2028.

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

G	Street level	Exit/Entrance
L1	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent, Ticket/token, shops
L2	Side platform | Doors will open on the left
	Platform 1 Southbound	Towards → SIPCOT 2 next station is Mandaiveli
	Platform 2 Northbound	Towards ← Madhavaram Milk Colony next station is Radhakrishnan Road Junction
	Side platform | Doors will open on the left
L3	Side platform | Doors will open on the left
	Platform 3 Southbound	Towards → Parandur Airport next station is Alwarpet
	Platform 4 Northbound	Towards ← Lighthouse next station is Kutchery Road
	Side platform | Doors will open on the left

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.

Thirumayilai track layout
Legend
to Radhakrishnan Road Junction to Mandaiveli
Station with two tracks and one Island platform

Thirumayilai track layout
Legend
to Kutchery Road to Alwarpet
Station with two tracks and one Island platform

See also

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

References

1. ^ Tejonmayam, U (10 June 2023). "Chennai's Mylapore, T Nagar to get metro only by 2028". The Times of India. Chennai: The Times Group. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
2. ^ Sekar, Sunitha (9 June 2023). "At 115 feet below the ground, Thirumayilai Metro station will be the last to be opened in 2028". The Hindu. Chennai: Kasturi & Sons. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
3. ^ Sekar, Sunitha (22 May 2022). "At Thirumayilai, Chennai Metro to build deep station with three platforms". The Hindu. Chennai. Retrieved 10 June 2022.

External links

• Official website
• UrbanRail.Net – descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations.
• "Thirumayilai metro station" (Map). Google Maps. No URL entered.

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