Chetput railway station

Chetpet Chettupattu
Indian Railways and Chennai Suburban Railway station
Chetpet railway station
General information
Location	McNichols Road, Chetpet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Coordinates	13°4′27″N 80°14′35″E / 13.07417°N 80.24306°E / 13.07417; 80.24306
Owned by	Ministry of Railways, Indian Railways
Line(s)	South and South West lines of Chennai Suburban Railway
Tracks	4
Construction
Structure type	Standard on-ground station
Parking	Available
Other information
Status	Active
Station code	MSC
Fare zone	Southern Railways
History
Electrified	15 November 1931[1]
Previous names	South Indian Railway
Services
Preceding station Chennai Suburban Following station Chennai Egmore towards Chennai Beach South Line Nungambakkam towards Tambaram, Chengalpattu Junction or Villupuram Junction
Route map Legend Chennai Beach — Villupuram North Line West Line 0.00 Chennai Beach High Court 1.80 Chennai Fort  MRTS  3.07 Chennai Central Green Line Blue Line 3.07 Chennai Park 3.07 Parktown MRTS 4.32 Chennai Egmore Green Line 6.56 Chetput Purple Line Cooum River 8.15 Nungambakkam 9.68 Kodambakkam Orange Line 11.29 Mambalam 12.90 Saidapet Adyar River 15.01 Guindy Blue Line 17.12 St. Thomas Mount Green Line Red Line  MRTS  18.75 Pazhavanthangal 20.04 Meenambakkam 21.22 Tirusulam Blue Line 23.15 Pallavaram 25.35 Chromepet Blue Line 27.36 Tambaram Sanatorium 29.14 Tambaram Blue Line 32.64 Perungalathur Blue Line 34.44 Vandalur Blue Line 37.48 Kilambakkam Blue Line 37.50 Urapakkam 40.41 Guduvancheri 43.94 Potheri 45.85 Kattangulathur 46.96 Maraimalai Nagar 51.48 Singaperumal Koil 55.59 Paranur 59.84 Chengalpattu Junction to Arakkonam 63.00 Tirumani 68.37 Ottivakkam 73.08 Padalam 80.83 Karunguzhi 84.48 Maduranthakam 91.07 Pakkam 95.37 Melmaruvathur 98.21 Acharapakkam 104.27 Tozhuppedu 109.44 Karasangal 113.86 Olakur 118.59 Panchalam 125.48 Tindivanam 134.84 Mailam 143.44 Perani 149.92 Vikravandi 156.44 Mundiyampakkam to Katpadi 162.76 Viluppuram Junction
Location

Chetpet Railway Station, also spelt as Chetput Railway Station, is one of the railway stations of the Chennai Beach–Chengalpattu section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. It serves the neighbourhood of Chetpet. It is situated adjacent to the Chetpet lake on the southern side, with an elevation of 9 m above sea level.

The station lies in the Chennai Beach–Tambaram section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network, the first suburban section of the city. With the completion of track-lying work in March 1931, which began in 1928, the suburban services were started on 11 May 1931 between Beach and Tambaram, and was electrified on 15 November 1931, with the first MG EMU services running on 1.5 kV DC.^[1] The section was converted to 25 kV AC traction on 15 January 1967.^[2]

There are a total of 4 platforms and 4 tracks. The platforms are connected by foot overbridge. These platforms are built to accumulate 24 coaches express train. The platforms are equipped with modern facility like display board of arrival and departure of trains.

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