Thirumayilai railway station
Thirumayilai Mylapore | |||||||||||||||
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| Chennai MRTS station | |||||||||||||||
Thirumayilai MRTS station | |||||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 13°02′06″N 80°16′02″E / 13.035047°N 80.267181°E | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | Side platform Platform-1 → Velachery ** Platform-2 → Chennai Beach ** (Further extenstion to St. Thomas Mount in the near future) | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Connections | Yellow LinePurple Line Thirumayilai metro station | ||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
| Opened | 19 October 1997 | ||||||||||||||
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| 2009–10 | 3,235 per day (average) | ||||||||||||||
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Thirumayilai MRTS station, or simply Mylapore railway station, is a railway station on the Chennai MRTS line. It was started in 1997 which marked the completion of Phase I of the Chennai MRTS project. The station is located on the bank of Buckingham Canal, accessible from Ramakrishna Mutt road near Luz Corner. The Station building also comprises the Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) office and Southern Railway's Computerized Ticket Reservation Centre. The Station building consists of 1050 sq.m of parking area in its basement.
The station is about 13.540 metres from mean sea level.