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Tambaram Sanatorium


Tambaram Sanatorium (Tamil: தாம்பரம் சானடோரியம்) is a locality between Chromepet and Tambaram, in Chennai, India. The neighbourhood is served by Tambaram Sanatorium railway station on the Chennai BeachChengalpattu section via Tambaram of the Chennai suburban railway.

It was originally a part of Tambaram, but later developed as a separate Neighbourhood due to the railway station and the TB Sanatorium and the Madras Export Processing Zone (MEPZ) located there. Along with TB Sanatorium, an institution was started by the State Government, for giving training to socially and economically deprived women (better known as Service Home). Before MEPZ came, a big FCI godown was started to store food grains for public distribution system.

Tambaram Sanatorium gets its name from the Sanatorium that was opened by Chowri Muthu in April 1928

The mofussil bus terminus in Tambaram Sanatorium handles outstation buses from the locality. Built on a 3.77 acre land at a cost of about 50 million,

Tambaram Sanatorium hosts 2 Bus depots located in the Same Campus.it houses the Tambaram Depot of MTC and Tambaram Depot of TNSTC-Chennai Region

Tambaram Depot of MTC is largest Bus depot in Tamil Nadu with a fleet of 235 buses

Codes:

1.Tambaram Depot of MTC-> "TA"


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