Light House | |
Native Name: | Kalankarai Vilakkam |
Type: | Chennai MRTS station |
Style: | Indian Railways |
Coordinates: | 13.0452°N 80.2768°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) |
Tracks: | 2 |
Parking: | Yes |
Opened: | 19 October 1997 |
Owned: | Indian Railways |
Zone: | Chennai |
Mapframe: | yes |
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 station was opened on 19 October 1997, as part of the first phase of the Chennai MRTS network.
The 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]
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 | |||||
Light 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]