Light House is a railway station on the Chennai MRTS. It is located behind the Queen Mary's college, between Avvai Shanmugam Salai in Triplicane and Radha Krishnan Salai at Mylapore. It is the MRTS station for the famous Chennai Lighthouse.
Light House Kalankarai Vilakkam | |||||||||||||||
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 Chennai MRTS station | |||||||||||||||
 Light House railway station building | |||||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 13°02′43″N 80°16′37″E / 13.045167°N 80.276821°E | ||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Indian Railways | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | Side platform Platform-1 → Velachery ** Platform-2 → Chennai Beach ** (Further extenstion to St. Thomas Mount in the near future) | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||||||
| Parking | Yes | ||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | Chennai | ||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 19 October 1997 | ||||||||||||||
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History
editLight House station was opened on 19 October 1997, as part of the first phase of the Chennai MRTS network.
Structure
editThe station is elevated and built on the eastern banks of the Buckingham Canal. The Station building consists of 1010 sq.m of parking area in its basement, which is largely unused.[1]
Station layout
editLight House track layout | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Station with two tracks and two side platforms
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| G | Street level | Exit/Entrance |
| L1 | Mezzanine | Fare control, Station ticket counters and Automatic ticket vending machines |
| L2 | Side platform | Doors will open on the left 
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| Platform 2 Northbound |
Towards → Chennai Beach Next Station: Thiruvallikeni | |
| Platform 1 Southbound |
Towards ← Velacherry Next Station: Mundagakanniamman Koil (to be further extended to St. Thomas Mount railway station in the near future) | |
| Side platform | Doors will open on the left
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Service and connections
editLight House station is the seventh station on the MRTS line to Velachery. In the return direction from Velachery, it is currently the eleventh station towards Chennai Beach station.[2]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ R.Ramanathan. "Presentation on MRTS & Rail facilities in and around Chennai" (PDF). Traffic Transportation and Parking – Session 2. CMDA, Chennai. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
- ^ "Chennai Beach – Velachery – Chennai Beach Week days service" (PDF). Southern Railways. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 September 2012. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
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