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.
Station layout
GStreet levelExit/EntranceMMezzanineFare control, station agent, Ticket/token, shopsP1Platform 1SouthboundTowards → Chennai International AirportNext Station: AG-DMS (to be further extended to Kilambakkam in the future)Island platform | Doors will open on the right Platform 2NorthboundTowards ← Wimco Nagar DepotNext Station: LICP2Platform 3SouthboundTowards ← SIPCOT 2Next Station: Royapettah Government HospitalIsland platform | Doors will open on the right Platform 4NorthboundTowards ← Madhavaram Milk ColonyNext Station: Gemini
Connections Bus 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.
Entry/Exit Thousand Lights metro station Entry/exits Gate No-A1Gate No-A2Gate No-A3Gate No-A4
See also
Chennai Anna Salai List of Chennai metro stations Chennai Metro Railway stations in Chennai Chennai Mass Rapid Transit System Chennai Monorail Chennai Suburban Railway Chennai International Airport Transport in Chennai Urban rail transit in India List of metro systems
References
External links
UrbanRail.Net – descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations.