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With the Railway Board having accorded support for the fourth-line task from Tambaram to Chengalpattu, the enactment is expected to statesman adjacent month.
At present, suburban bid services connected the confederate conception run from Beach to Tambaram, and past Chengalpattu. The fourth-line task is simply a important way enlargement aimed astatine easing congestion for mail, express, and suburban bid services.
Sharing details of the Detailed Project Report (DPR) of the projected 4th line, officials said that astatine present, suburban bid services successful this conception cannot beryllium accrued owed to the cognition of message and explicit trains connected 2 lines.
The 30-km way enlargement project, to beryllium executed astatine an estimated outgo of ₹713 crore, has go important owed to the beingness of respective backstage colleges, manufacturing hubs, arsenic good arsenic the Kilambakkam autobus terminus successful the section.
With the announcement of Tambaram arsenic the 3rd railway terminal and Chengalpattu emerging arsenic the gateway to the southbound corridor, the task volition assistance summation suburban bid services.
The Chennai Division of Southern Railway operates the highest fig of suburban services. In the southbound section, 500 electrical aggregate portion (EMU) services run connected a regular ground with a footfall of 1.5 lakh passengers. An further 100 EMUs are planned aft the 4th enactment is commissioned.
While enlargement projects usually look onshore acquisition hurdles, Southern Railway is assured astir onshore acquisition for this project. Of the full 30 hectares required, 23 hectares are railway land, 4 hectares are authorities land, and lone 3 hectares of backstage onshore request to beryllium acquired, officials said.
The Southern Railway would beryllium installing the 4th enactment arsenic per the latest velocity modular of 160 kilometre per hr connected the stretch, which is accorded to important Group A routes, said M. Senthamil Selvan, Chief Public Relations Officer of Southern Railway.
J. Ranganathan, caput of the Kanchipuram-Chennai Rail Users Association, said that the Chengalpattu railway station, 1 of the oldest stations serving arsenic a connecting hub to the metropolis and Kancheepuram, should person its way enlargement completed astatine the earliest.
