Thirumayilai metro station is an elevated metro station on the Yellow Line of the Chennai Metro. The station is among the underground stations along corridor I of the Chennai Metro, Lighthouse–Poonamallee Bypass stretch. The station serves the neighbourhoods of Mylapore.
The station is a key interchange linking Corridor 3 and Corridor 4 of the Chennai Metro network and, at 115 ft below the ground, will be the deepest metro station in Chennai.
History Construction began in 2021 and the station remained an engineering challenge during its construction owing to its depth cut through rocky soil. Owing to these difficulties, the station is expected to be completed by 2028.
Construction The T-shaped station will be built on four levels with four tunnels stacked one above the other, below the Luz Junction (junction connecting Luz and the Canal Bank Road) in the neighbourhood of Mylapore. Upon construction, the station will be the deepest metro station in Chennai, at 40 meters below street level, surpassing the Chennai Central metro station, which is 30 meters below street level. This is because the rails in corridor 3 run as stacked tunnels, with one track located 17 metres below the ground (first level, or platform 1) and another 40 metres below (third level, or platform 3). The tracks in corridor 4 will be in parallel tunnels (second level, or platform 2) built between platforms 1 and 3.
Station layout
GStreet levelExit/EntranceB1MezzanineFare control, station agent, Metro Card vending machines, crossoverB2Side platform | Doors will open on the left Platform 1NorthboundTowards → Next Station: Radhakrishnan Road JunctionB3Platform #WestboundTowards ← **Next Station: Island platform | P# & P# doors will open on the left Platform #EastboundTowards → Next Station: B4Platform 4SouthboundTowards ← Next Station: Side platform | Doors will open on the left B4Note:** (Further extension to in the future)
The station The station will be located at a depth of below the ground with four levels, namely, a concourse level and three platform levels. The first (uppermost) level will be at a depth of consisting of the Madhavaram–SIPCOT upper track. The middle level will be at a depth of and will consist of the Lighthouse–Poonamallee dual lines. The third (lowermost) level will be at a depth of consisting of the Madhavaram–SIPCOT lower track. The station will be spread over an area of 4854.4 square meters. While most other stations in phase II has only two entry/exit points, the Thirumayilai station alone will have five entry/exit points.
See also
List of Chennai metro stations Railway stations in Chennai Chennai Mass Rapid Transit System Chennai Monorail Chennai Suburban Railway Transport in Chennai
References
External links
UrbanRail.Net – descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations.