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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.^[1]

History

Station layout

Thousand Lights track layout

Legend


					to LIC
			P2 P1
					to AG-DMS

Station with two tracks and one Island platform

Thousand Lights track layout

Legend


					to Royapettah Government Hospital
			P# P#
					to Gemini

Station with two tracks and one Island platform

G	Street level	Exit/Entrance
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent, Ticket/token, shops
P1	Platform 1 Southbound	Towards → Chennai International Airport next station is AG-DMS (to be further extended to Kilambakkam in the future)
	Island platform \| Doors will open on the right
	Platform 2 Northbound	Towards ← Wimco Nagar Depot next station is LIC
P2	Platform 3 Southbound	Towards ← Kilambakkam next station is Royapettah Government Hospital
	Island platform \| Doors will open on the right
	Platform 4 Northbound	Towards ← Madhavaram Milk Colony next station is Gemini

Facilities

List of available ATM at Thousand Lights metro station are

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.^[2]

Rail

Entry/Exit

Thousand Lights metro station Entry/exits
Gate No-A1	Gate No-A2	Gate No-A3	Gate No-A4

References

^ Sekar, Sunitha (21 January 2019). "Work on LIC, Thousand Lights Metro stations still on". The Hindu. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
^ "Home". mtcbus.org.

External links

Official website
UrbanRail.Net – descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations.
Google. "Thousand Lights metro station" (Map). Google Maps. Google.

[1] Sekar, Sunitha (21 January 2019). "Work on LIC, Thousand Lights Metro stations still on". The Hindu. Retrieved 10 February 2019.

[2] "Home". mtcbus.org.

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Chennai Metro
Stations Chennai Metro Rail Limited
Blue Line 1	Wimco Nagar Tiruvottriyur Tiruvottriyur Theradi Kaladipet Tollgate New Washermanpet Tondiarpet Sir Theagaraya College Washermanpet Mannadi High Court Chennai Central ■ Government Estate LIC Thousand Lights AG – DMS Teynampet Nandanam Saidapet Little Mount Guindy Arignar Anna Alandur ■ Nanganallur Road Meenambakkam Chennai International Airport
Purple Line 3	Madhavaram Milk Colony ■ Madhavaram High Road Moolakadai Sembiyam Perambur Market Perambur Ayanavaram Otteri Pattalam Perambur Barracks Road Purasaiwakkam Kellys Kilpauk Medical College ■ Chetpet Sterling Road Nungambakkam Anna Flyover Thousand Lights ■ Royapettah Dr. Radhakrishnan Salai Thirumayilai ■ Mandaiveli Greenways Road Adyar Junction Adyar Depot Indira Nagar, Chennai Thiruvanmiyur Tharamani Nehru Nagar Kandanchavadi Perungudi Thoraipakkam Mettukuppam PTC Colony Okkiyampet Karapakkam Okkiyam Thoraipakkam Sholinganallur ■ Sholinganallur Lake I Sholinganallur Lake II Semmancheri I Semmancheri II Gandhi Nagar Navallur Siruseri Siruseri Sipcot I Siruseri Sipcot II
Bold represents terminal station on the respective main or branch line Stations in italics* are under construction