Chennai: Due to the construction of the foot overbridge at Egmore Railway Station, platforms 1 to 5 have been closed. Some trains have been diverted to Tambaram.
Renovation work is being carried out at Chennai Egmore Railway Station at a cost of Rs. 734.91 crore. As part of this, the first phase of work to install a massive foot overbridge began in February.
Following this, express and suburban train services were diverted. Currently, as the second phase, work is underway to install an iron foot overbridge. For this purpose, platforms 1 to 5 at Egmore Railway Station have been closed.
Following this, some express trains have been diverted to Tambaram. Regarding this, Southern Railway officials said: At Egmore railway station, a new iron foot overbridge measuring 18 meters wide and 120 meters long is being constructed from platform 1 to platform 5.
In addition, a large pit is being dug on platform 4, and work is underway to install pillars. As a result, the railway tracks on platforms 1 through 5 have been completely closed.
Therefore, express trains are operated from the platforms from 6 to 9. Electric trains will continue to operate as usual from platforms 10 and 11.
After these works are completed, the next phase of work will be to carry out the construction of the pillars and supporting beams of the foot overbridge from platform 6 to platform 8.
Accordingly, changes will be made to train services. They said this. Changes in electric train services: Some electric train services operating on the Beach - Tambaram - Chengalpattu routes will be fully and partially cancelled from Aug. 22 to Aug. 30.
