Poonamallee Bypass metro station explained


Poonamallee Bypass
Native Name Lang:ta
Style:Chennai Metro
Address:Poonamallee, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600056
Country:India
Owned:Chennai Metro
Operator:Chennai Metro Rail Limited
Platforms:Island platforms
Platform-1 → Lighthouse
Platform-2 → Parandur Airport
Tracks:2
Structure:Elevated, Double track
Parking:No
Accessible:Yes
Electrified:Single phase 25 kV, 50 Hz AC through overhead catenary
Opened:Under construction

Poonamallee Bypass metro station is a metro railway station on the Orange Line of the Chennai Metro. The station is among the 30 stations of corridor IV and 18 elevated stations along corridor IV of the Chennai Metro, Poonamallee Bypass–Lighthouse stretch. The station serves the neighbourhoods of Poonamallee.

History

Construction of the station began in 2021. The construction is being funded by Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.[1]

Depot

The Poonamallee Bypass metro station will feature a depot, which will be one of the five depots of the Chennai Metro.[1] Built at a cost of 2,250 million, the depot will have 24 tracks and will be used for the repair, maintenance and cleaning of trains and will exclusively serve the trains to be operated on the Poonamallee–Light House stretch.[2] The depot will feature ballast tracks to save on capital expenditure, since laying ballastless track my cost an additional 800 to 900 million.[3]

GStreet levelExit/Entrance
valign=topL1valign=topMezzaninevalign=topFare control, station agent, Metro Card vending machines, crossover
L2Side platform Doors will open on the left
Platform 1
Westbound
Towards ←
Next Station: Poonamallee Depot
Platform 2
Eastbound
Towards →
Next Station: Poonamallee
Side platform Doors will open on the left
L2

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Notes and References

  1. News: Kodambakkam to Poonamalee Chennai Metro stretch to be operational by June 2024 . The New Indian Express . Chennai . Express Publications . 13 August 2021 . 30 December 2021.
  2. News: Metro finalises contractor for phase II's Poonamallee depot . The Hindu . Chennai . Kasturi & Sons . 24 September 2021 . 30 December 2021.
  3. News: CMRL may decide to build ballast tracks at Poonamallee depot . The Hindu . Chennai . Kasturi & Sons . 28 January 2021 . 30 December 2021.