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The station lies in the Chennai Beach–Tambaram section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network, the first suburban section of the city. With the completion of track-lying work in March 1931, which began in 1928, the suburban services were started on 11 May 1931 between Beach and Tambaram, and was electrified on 15 November 1931, with the first MG EMU services running on 1.5 kV DC. [2]
Meenambakkam is an elevated metro station on the North-South Corridor of the Blue Line of Chennai Metro in Chennai, India. This station serves the neighbourhoods of Meenambakkam and Tirusulam . Construction
The first railway station to be built in Madras was the Royapuram station constructed in 1855 though the city had a railway line that dates back to the 1840s. Fundamentally, Chennai has 4 suburban railway lines, [ 2 ] namely North line , West line , South line and MRTS line .
The Chennai Metro is a rapid transit system serving the city of Chennai and its suburbs. Phase I of the project consisted of two corridors covering a length of 54.15 kilometres (33.65 mi). [ 1 ] The elevated section of the project began operations in June 2015, with the entire elevated stretch operational as of October 2016. [ 2 ]
The Madras Electricity Supply Corporation, which powered the railway lines, was aided by sub-stations in Egmore and Meenambakkam. Soon, the number of trains shuttling passengers was increased to 45 a day, running every 10 minutes at peak hours, and every 30 minutes, otherwise.
This station came into being in the 1970s and lies between St. Thomas Mount and Meenambakkam railway stations. This serves as the railway node to the Vembuli Amman Temple, Rajarajeshwari Temple and the Anjaneyar Temple with a 32-feet idol of Hanuman and the adjoining temples of Nanganallur. Close to it is the Palavanthangal subway which serves ...
As of the 2001 Indian census, Nanganallur had a population of 86,230. As a result of Chennai's booming IT business and setting up of IT parks in the suburbs, a lot of people moved into suburbs like Nanganallur. Towards the end of 2009, it was announced that the Chennai Corporation would be expanded to cover the surrounding 42 local bodies.
It serves the neighbourhood of Meenambakkam, a suburb of Chennai. It is situated at Grand Trunk Road across Chennai International Airport Cargo Terminal, with an elevation of 18 metres (59 ft) above sea level. It is an upcoming busiest Suburban Railway station, which is also accessed by neighbourhood of Nanganallur, Moovarasampettai. Metro