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St. Thomas Mount metro station

St. Thomas Mount
பரங்கிமலை
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°E / 12.99472; 80.19889Coordinates: 12°59′41″N 80°11′56″E / 12.99472°N 80.19889°E / 12.99472; 80.19889
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
History
Previous names South Indian Railway
St. Thomas Mount
பரங்கிமலை
Chennai Metro station
Line(s)
Platforms Side platform
Tracks 2
Construction
Structure type Elevated
Platform levels 1
History
Opened 14 October 2016 (2016-10-14)
Services
Preceding station   Chennai Metro   Following station
Green Line Terminus
  Out-of-system interchange  
Preceding station   Chennai MRTS   Following station
Chennai Beach-St.Thomas Mount Terminus
Preceding station   Chennai Suburban   Following station
South Line

St. Thomas Mount railway station, or Mount railway station, is one of the railway stations of the Chennai BeachChengalpattu 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.


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