Poonamallee Bypass metro station

Poonamallee Bypass
Chennai Metro Station
General information
Location	Poonamallee, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600056 India
Owned by	Chennai Metro
Operated by	Chennai Metro Rail Limited
Platforms	Island platforms Platform-1 → Lighthouse metro station Platform-2 → Poonamallee Bypass metro station
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Elevated, Double track
Parking	No
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	Under construction
Electrified	Single phase 25 kV, 50 Hz AC through overhead catenary
Services
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Poonamallee Bypass metro station is a metro railway station on the Orange Line of the Chennai Metro. The station is among the 30 stations of corridor IV and 18 elevated stations along corridor IV of the Chennai Metro, Poonamallee Bypass–Lighthouse stretch. The station serves the neighbourhoods of Poonamallee.

History

Construction of the station began in 2021. The construction is being funded by Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

Depot

The Poonamallee Bypass metro station will feature a depot, which will be one of the five depots of the Chennai Metro. The depot will be used for the repair, maintenance and cleaning of trains and will exclusively serve the trains to be operated on the Poonamallee–Light House stretch.

See also

• List of Chennai metro stations
• Railway stations in Chennai
• Transport in Chennai
• Urban rail transit in India
• List of metro systems

External links

• Official website
• UrbanRail.Net – descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations.