Kasturibai NagarorKasturba Nagar is a railway station on the Chennai MRTS. Located near the Madhya Kailash junction on Rajiv Gandhi Salai, it exclusively serves the Chennai MRTS.
Kasturibai Nagar Kasturba Nagar | |||||||||||||||
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 Chennai MRTS station | |||||||||||||||
Kasturba Nagar railway station
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| Coordinates | 13°00′20″N 80°14′52″E / 13.005441°N 80.247713°E / 13.005441; 80.247713 | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | Side platform Platform-1 → Velachery ** Platform-2 → Chennai Beach ** (Further extenstion to St. Thomas Mount in the near future) (280 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 26 January 2004 | ||||||||||||||
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Kasturiba Nagar station was opened on 26 January 2004, as part of the second phase of the Chennai MRTS network. The station was built by Larsen & Toubro.[1]
The elevated station is built on the western banks of Buckingham Canal. The length of the platform is 280 m.[2] The station building consists of 3,200 sq m of parking area in its basement.[3]
Kasturba Nagar track layout | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 
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| Platform 2 Northbound |
Towards → Chennai Beach next station is Kotturpuram | |
| Platform 1 Southbound |
Towards ← Velacherry next station is Indira Nagar (to be further extended to St. Thomas Mount railway station in the near future) | |
| Side platform | Doors will open on the left
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Kasturiba Nagar station is the twelfth station on the MRTS line to Velachery. In the return direction from Velachery, it is currently the sixth station towards Chennai Beach station.[4]
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