Chennai International Airport metro station

Chennai International Airport
சென்னை பன்னாட்டு வானுர்தி நிலையம்
Chennai Metro Station
Platforms Side platforms
Construction
Structure type Elevated
Services
Preceding station   Chennai Metro   Following station
TerminusBlue Line
toward Washermanpet
  Out-of-system interchange  
Preceding station   Chennai Suburban   Following station
South Line
Transfer at: Tirusulam

Chennai International Airport metro station is a metro railway station on the Line 1 of the Chennai Metro, which is currently under construction. The station is among the elevated stations coming up along corridor I of the Chennai Metro, Washermanpet–Chennai International Airport stretch and is the terminal station. The station will serve the neighbourhoods of Meenambakkam and Tirusulam.

The station will make Chennai the second city in the country to have rail connectivity with the airport, after Delhi.[1]

Construction

The foundation for the station was laid on 24 May 2012. While the architectural and structural design of the station will be carried out by AAI in consultation with Creative Group, the interiors of the station will be designed by CMRL. The time frame for constructing the metro station is 14 months and the work has been awarded to URC Construction Company Private Limited, Erode, at a cost of ₹ 480 million.[2]

By the end of July 2014, the structural work on the station was completed.[1]

The station

The station building is a five-level terminal with a basement, ground floor, metro ground floor, concourse, and a platform. The station spans 17,300 sq m. To help passengers alight directly from the international and domestic terminals, the concourse of the station will be linked to the glass connector tube that will connect the two terminals. The station will be an RCC shell structure building with self-supported secret fix aluminium roofing.[2][3]

The station is one of the few in the corridor that will have parking facilities.[4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Sekar, Sunitha (4 August 2014). "Metro rail station work at Chennai airport completed". The Hindu (Chennai: The Hindu). Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  2. 1 2 Sridhar, Asha (24 May 2012). "Work on airport metro station to begin soon". The Hindu (Chennai: The Hindu). Retrieved 9 Nov 2012.
  3. ↑ Ayyappan, V. (9 March 2012). "AAI and CMRL firmed up to build the airport metro station". The Times of India (Chennai: The Times Group). Retrieved 6 Jan 2013.
  4. ↑ "Single train trip to equal 16 buses, 300 cars and 600 bikes". The Hindu (Chennai: The Hindu). 29 August 2012. Retrieved 25 Nov 2012.

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