Greenways Road is a railway station on the Chennai MRTS. Located on Greenways Road, it exclusively serves the Chennai MRTS.
Greenways Road Pasumaivazhi Salai | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Chennai MRTS station | |||||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 13°01′14″N 80°15′07″E / 13.020666°N 80.252005°E | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | Side platform Platform-1 → Velachery ** Platform-2 → Chennai Beach ** (Further extenstion to St. Thomas Mount in the near future) (280 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||||||
| Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
| Opened | 26 January 2004 | ||||||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
History edit
Greenways Road station was opened on 26 January 2004, as part of the second phase of the Chennai MRTS network.
Structure edit
The elevated station is built on the eastern bank of Buckingham Canal adjacent to the junction of the Buckingham Canal with Adyar River. Like most other stations along the Chennai MRTS route, Greenways Road features 2 side platforms, which the length of each platform being 280 metres.[1] The station building consists of 3,300 sq m of parking area in its basement.[2]
Station layout edit
Greenways Road track layout | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Station with two tracks and two side platforms
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| G | Street level | Exit/Entrance |
| L1 | Mezzanine | Fare control, Station ticket counters and Automatic ticket vending machines |
| L2 | Side platform | Doors will open on the left 
| |
| Platform 2 Northbound |
Towards → Chennai Beach next station is Mandaveli | |
| Platform 1 Southbound |
Towards ← Velacherry next station is Kotturpuram (to be further extended to St. Thomas Mount railway station in the near future) | |
| Side platform | Doors will open on the left
| ||
| L2 | ||
Service and connections edit
Greenways Road is the tenth station on the MRTS line to Velachery. In the return direction from Velachery, it is currently the eight station towards Chennai Beach station.[3]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "MRTS Phase-II Extension". Development of MRTS in Chennai. CMDA. Archived from the original on 15 August 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2012.
- ^ R.Ramanathan. "Presentation on MRTS & Rail facilities in and around Chennai" (PDF). Traffic Transportation and Parking – Session 2. CMDA, Chennai. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
- ^ "Chennai Beach – Velachery – Chennai Beach Week days service" (PDF). Southern Railways. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 September 2012. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
 | This article about a railway station in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |