Basin Bridge Junction | |||||
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 View of Basin Bridge railway junction | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Pulianthope, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India | ||||
| Coordinates | 13°06′08″N 80°16′17″E / 13.10230°N 80.27143°E | ||||
| System | |||||
| Owned by | Ministry of Railways, Indian Railways | ||||
| Lines | |||||
| Platforms | 7 | ||||
| Tracks | 8 | ||||
| Construction | |||||
| Structure type | Standard on-ground station | ||||
| Parking | Available | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | BBQ | ||||
| Fare zone | Southern Railways | ||||
| History | |||||
| Electrified | 13 April 1979[1] | ||||
| Previous names | South Indian Railway | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2013 | 10,000/day [2] | ||||
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Basin Bridge Junction is a railway station in Chennai, India. It comes under the purview of the Chennai railway division of the Southern Railway zone of the Indian Railways.[3] It is the first station on the lines originating from Chennai Central, and as Central is a terminal station, the various lines branch out from the nearby Basin Bridge station.[4] It is located at Pulianthope near the confluence on the Otteri Nullah and Buckingham Canal.
A coach maintenance depot and train care centre is located close to the station. It is the largest train care centre under the Southern Railway, and is equipped with 14 pit lines including two lines to accommodate 24-coach trains, and the rest designed to park 18-coach trains.[5][6][7] It also has a trip shed for housing electric locomotives, located to the north of the train care centre.[8]
The station is covered by an Integrated Security Surveillance System project implemented in 2012.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "IR Electrification Chronology up to 31.03.2004". IRFCA. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
- ^ "Go northwest, but don't take a train". The Times of India. The Times Group. 27 April 2013. Archived from the original on 30 June 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
- ^ "Southern Railway List of Stations" (PDF). Centre For Railway Information Systems. 1 April 2023. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 March 2024. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ Vydhianathan, S. (26 October 2004). "Second terminal at Chennai Central proposed". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 1 December 2004. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- ^ "About Us". Southern Railway zone. Archived from the original on 24 April 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
- ^ Ayyappan, V. (9 July 2012). "Railway staff battle muck, indifference". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
- ^ "Train care centre in Chennai needs thorough overhaul". The Times of India. 31 July 2012. Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
- ^ Saqaf, Syed Muthahar; R. Rajaram (23 August 2010). "Electric locomotive trip shed at Tiruchi junction". The Hindu. Chennai. Archived from the original on 27 August 2010. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
- ^ "Chennai: Suburban railway stations to come under CCTV surveillance". The New Indian Express. 18 July 2012. Archived from the original on 11 November 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
