Wimco Nagar Depot metro station

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The station

Depot

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	; Wimco Nagar Depot Metro Location within Chennai

Wimco Nagar Depot Metro
; Wimco Nagar Depot Metro
Chennai Metro station
General information
Location	Ernavur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Coordinates	13°11′00″N 80°18′31″E / 13.18341°N 80.30854°E
Owned by	Chennai Metro
Operated by	Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL)
Line(s)	Blue Line (Chennai Metro)
Platforms	Island platforms; Platform-1 → Chennai International Airport (to be extended to Kilambakkam in the future); Platform-2 → Train Terminates Here
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Elevated, Double track
Platform levels	2
Accessible	Yes [citation needed]
Other information
Station code	SWD
History
Opened	14 March 2022; 2 years ago
Electrified	Single-phase 25 kV, 50 Hz AC through overhead catenary
Services
Location
Location
	; Wimco Nagar Depot Metro Location within Chennai

Wimco Nagar Depot Metro station is a Metro railway station on Line 1 Extension of the Chennai Metro. The station is one of the 10 stations in the Phase I northern extension and one of the 26 stations along the Blue Line (Chennai Metro) of the Chennai Metro. The station will serve the neighbourhoods of Ernavur and other northern suburbs of Chennai. This station was inaugurated along with Thiruvottriyur Theradi Metro Station on 14 March 2022.^[1]

With the inauguration of the northern extension of Blue line of Phase I, a depot was planned for the Wimco Nagar metro station.^[2] In January 2022, the Chennai Metro Rail Corporation decided to build a new station at this depot, located about 500 meters from the station.^[3]

Wimco Nagar Depot is an elevated Metro station situated on the Blue Line (Chennai Metro). It is located in the neighbourhood of Ernavur, about 500 meters from the Wimco Nagar metro station.

There will be two entrances for the Lighthouse metro station, one of which will be near the lighthouse.^[4]

G	Street level	Exit/Entrance
L1	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent, Ticket/token, shops
L2	Side platform \| Doors will open on the left
	Platform 1 Southbound	Towards → Chennai International Airport next station is Wimco Nagar (to be further extended to Kilambakkam in the future)
	Platform 2 Northbound	Towards ← Train Terminates Here
	Side platform \| Doors will open on the left
L2

The elevated station will have a depot to maintain and park trains running between Washermanpet and Wimco Nagar. The depot will have 16 lines, including the one for the station. The depot will have a small station, a training facility, and other amenities for the depot staff and train operators. The depot station is separate from the Wimco Nagar elevated station and will be less than a kilometer away from the Wimco Nagar metro station. It will cover an area of 15,500 square meter and will be at a height of 12 meters. The depot will rest on 1,161 underground foundation pile columns. It is connected with a 1.8-meter-thick concrete raft on which 324 columns of varying thickness will be built. A four-level parking space will be built in these columns below the stabling lines. A 600-meter link corridor connects these lines with the mainline proceeding towards Wimco Nagar elevated station. Other features include a 7.5-meter-wide internal road around the depot, stormwater drains, and 600,000-liter (159,000 gallon) water tank. A 10,000-square-meter area near the depot will be earmarked for future parking spaces, besides a 1,055-square-meter auto coach washing plant with three levels for property development. Designed to handle all the 52 trains of the Metro, the depot is planned to be completed by December 2020.^[5]

The construction of the elevated depot began in 2018 at a cost of ₹ 2,300 million. The depot covers an area of 3.5 ha, with provision to station 12 trains. Other facilities in the depot include three inspections lines, one emergency repair line, and a small plant for washing trains.^[6] The Metro Rail is planning to build a 60-meter-tall, 20-storied building above the elevated depot station for residential or office space.^[5]

Wimco Nagar Depot track layout

Legend

Station with two tracks and two side platforms

Wimco Nagar railway station

^ "Chennai metro rail opens two stations in phase-1 extension". The Indian Express. 14 March 2022. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
^ Cuenca, Oliver (16 February 2021). "Chennai Metro inaugurates Blue Line extension". International Railway Journal. IRJ. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
^ Sekar, Sunitha (5 January 2022). "Metro Rail plans a station at Wimco Nagar depot". The Hindu. Chennai: Kasturi & Sons. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
^ Sekar, Sunitha (26 April 2019). "Soon, Marina on the Metro map". The Hindu. Chennai: Kasturi & Sons. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
^ ^a ^b "Transit-Oriented Development Announced in Chennai". Global Tall Building News. CTBUH. 8 January 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
^ Sekar, Sunitha (5 May 2018). "Metro Rail extension gathers pace". The Hindu. Retrieved 12 May 2018.

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[1] "Chennai metro rail opens two stations in phase-1 extension". The Indian Express. 14 March 2022. Retrieved 25 February 2023.

[IRJ-2] Cuenca, Oliver (16 February 2021). "Chennai Metro inaugurates Blue Line extension". International Railway Journal. IRJ. Retrieved 18 February 2021.

[TH_DepotStation-3] Sekar, Sunitha (5 January 2022). "Metro Rail plans a station at Wimco Nagar depot". The Hindu. Chennai: Kasturi & Sons. Retrieved 15 January 2022.

[Hindu_MarinaOnMetroMap-4] Sekar, Sunitha (26 April 2019). "Soon, Marina on the Metro map". The Hindu. Chennai: Kasturi & Sons. Retrieved 2 May 2019.

[CTBUH_Transit_Chennai-5] "Transit-Oriented Development Announced in Chennai". Global Tall Building News. CTBUH. 8 January 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2020.

[6] Sekar, Sunitha (5 May 2018). "Metro Rail extension gathers pace". The Hindu. Retrieved 12 May 2018.

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