Thousand Lights is an underground metro station on the North-South Corridor of the Blue Line of Chennai Metro in Chennai, India. This station serves the neighbourhoods of Royapettah, Greams Road, and Gopalapuram. The station is named so because of the presence of the Thousand Lights Mosque in the vicinity. The station was opened for public on 10 February 2019. However, some portions of the construction work remains incomplete on the date of inauguration. [1]
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Station with two tracks and one Island platform | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| G | Street level | Exit/Entrance |
| M | Mezzanine | Fare control, station agent, Ticket/token, shops |
| P1 | Platform 1 Southbound | Towards → Chennai International Airport Next Station: AG-DMS (to be further extended to Kilambakkam in the future) |
Island platform | Doors will open on the right  | ||
| Platform 2 Northbound | Towards ← Wimco Nagar Depot Next Station: LIC | |
| P2 | Platform 3 Southbound | Towards ← SIPCOT 2 Next Station: Royapettah Government Hospital |
| Island platform | Doors will open on the right | ||
| Platform 4 Northbound | Towards ← Madhavaram Milk Colony Next Station: Gemini | |
| Thousand Lights metro station | |
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| General information | |
| Status | Completed |
| Type | Metro station |
| Location | Anna Salai |
| Town or city | Chennai |
| Country | India |
| Elevation | 10.0m |
| Completed | 2019 |
| Opened | 10 February 2019 |
| Inaugurated | 10 February 2019 |
| Design and construction | |
| Main contractor | L&T-SUCG JV |
| Website | |
| http://chennaimetrorail.org/ | |
List of available ATM at Thousand Lights metro station are
Metropolitan Transport Corporation (Chennai) bus routes number 1A, 1B, 3A, 5C, 11, 11A, 11ACT, 11G, 11H, 18A, 18D, 18E, 18K, 18R, 21, 23C, 23V, 24A, 26, 26B, 26CUT, 26J, 26M, 26R, 27D, 27DGS, 27L, 51J, 51P, 52, 52B, 52K, 52P, 54, 54D, 54M, 60, 60A, 60D, 60H, 88A, 88Ccut, 88K, 88R, 118A, 188, 221, 221H, A51, B18, D51, E18, M51R, T29, serves the station from nearby Anand Theatre bus stand. [2]
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