Kasturibai Nagar | |
Native Name: | Kasturba Nagar |
Type: | Chennai MRTS station |
Style: | Indian Railways |
Coordinates: | 13.0054°N 80.2477°W |
Mapframe-Marker: | rail |
Mapframe-Marker-Color: |
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Mapframe-Zoom: | 14 |
Structure: | Elevated |
Platform: | Side platform Platform-1 → ** Platform-2 → ** (Further extenstion to in the near future) (280 m) |
Tracks: | 2 |
Opened: | 26 January 2004 |
Mapframe: | yes |
Kasturibai Nagar or Kasturba Nagar is a railway station on the Chennai MRTS. Located near the Madhya Kailash junction on Rajiv Gandhi Salai, it exclusively serves the Chennai MRTS.
Kasturiba Nagar station was opened on 26 January 2004, as part of the second phase of the Chennai MRTS network. The station was built by Larsen & Toubro.[1]
The elevated station is built on the western banks of Buckingham Canal. The length of the platform is 280 m.[2] The station building consists of 3,200 sq m of parking area in its basement.[3]
G | Street level | Exit/Entrance | |||
valign=top | L1 | valign=top | Mezzanine | valign=top | Fare control, Station ticket counters and Automatic ticket vending machines |
L2 | Side platform | Doors will open on the left | |||
Platform 2 Northbound | Towards → next station is | ||||
Platform 1 Southbound | Towards ← Velacherry next station is (to be further extended to railway station in the near future) | ||||
Side platform | Doors will open on the left | ||||
L2 | |||||
Kasturiba Nagar station is the twelfth station on the MRTS line to Velachery. In the return direction from Velachery, it is currently the sixth station towards Chennai Beach station.[4]