Poonamallee Bypass metro station

Poonamallee Bypass
Chennai Metro station
General information
Location	Poonamallee, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600056 India
Owned by	Chennai Metro
Operated by	Chennai Metro Rail Limited
Line(s)	Orange Line
Platforms	Island platforms Platform-1 → Lighthouse Platform-2 → Parandur Airport
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Elevated, Double track
Parking	No
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	Under construction
Electrified	Single phase 25 kV, 50 Hz AC through overhead catenary
Services
Preceding station Chennai Metro Following station Terminus Orange Line Poonamallee towards Lighthouse Nazarethpet towards Parandur Airport Orange Line (Future Service)

Poonamallee Bypass metro station is a metro railway station on the Orange Line of the Chennai Metro. The station is among the 30 stations of corridor IV and 18 elevated stations along corridor IV of the Chennai Metro, Poonamallee Bypass–Lighthouse stretch. The station serves the neighbourhoods of Poonamallee.

Construction of the station began in 2021. The construction is being funded by Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.^[1]

The Poonamallee Bypass metro station will feature a depot, which will be one of the five depots of the Chennai Metro.^[1] Built at a cost of ₹2,250 million, the depot will have 24 tracks^[2] and will be used for the repair, maintenance and cleaning of trains and will exclusively serve the trains to be operated on the Poonamallee–Light House stretch.^[3] The depot will feature ballast tracks to save on capital expenditure, since laying ballastless track my cost an additional ₹800 to 900 million.^[2]

Poonamallee Bypass track layout
Legend
to Poonamallee to Poonamallee Depot
Station with two tracks and two side platforms

1. ^ ^{a b} "Kodambakkam to Poonamalee Chennai Metro stretch to be operational by June 2024". The New Indian Express. Chennai: Express Publications. 13 August 2021. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
2. ^ ^{a b} "CMRL may decide to build ballast tracks at Poonamallee depot". The Hindu. Chennai: Kasturi & Sons. 28 January 2021. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
3. ^ "Metro finalises contractor for phase II's Poonamallee depot". The Hindu. Chennai: Kasturi & Sons. 24 September 2021. Retrieved 30 December 2021.