St. Thomas Mount
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Station of Chennai Suburban Railway and Southern Railways | |
Location | GST Road, St. Thomas Mount, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
Coordinates | 12°59′41″N 80°11′56″E / 12.99472°N 80.19889°ECoordinates: 12°59′41″N 80°11′56″E / 12.99472°N 80.19889°E |
Owned by | Ministry of Railways, Indian Railways |
Line(s) | South and South West lines of Chennai Suburban Railway |
Platforms | 5 |
Tracks | 4 |
Construction | |
Structure type | Standard on-ground station |
Parking | Available |
Other information | |
Station code | STM |
Fare zone | Southern Railways |
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Previous names | South Indian Railway |
St. Thomas Mount
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Platforms | Side platform | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Structure type | Elevated | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Platform levels | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 14 October 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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St. Thomas Mount railway station, or Mount railway station, is one of the railway stations of the Chennai Beach–Chengalpattu section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. It serves the neighbourhood of St. Thomas Mount and Pazhavanthangal, which are suburbs of Chennai. It is located at a distance of 17 km from Chennai Beach terminus, with an elevation of 11 m above sea level.
The station is also an integrated railway station for all the three modes of rail transport in the city, namely, Chennai suburban railway, MRTS, and Metro Rail. The latter two are under construction.
St. Thomas Mount Metro station is a Metro-cum-MRTS railway station on the Green Line of the Chennai Metro. The station is an elevated station abutting the surface-level St. Thomas Mount suburban station of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. The metro level of the station started functioning on 14 October 2016 while the MRTS level is under construction.
The new terminal is envisaged as an integrated railway station for all the three modes of rail transport in the city, namely, Chennai Beach—Chengalpattu section of the Chennai Suburban Railway, terminal point of Chennai Beach—St. Thomas Mount MRTS, and Chennai Central–St. Thomas Mount Metro Rail.
It is planned to design, the proposed elevated St Thomas Mount Metro Rail station, as a ‘signature station' that would integrate all the 3 suburban rail modes of the city, at multiple levels. The integrated station will have three levels, namely, ground level for suburban station, level 1 for MRTS, and level 2 for Metro Rail. The length of the platform at the Metro station will be 140 m and the entire station complex will have a total built-up area of 48,000 sq m.