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'''Lighthouse Metro station''' is a [[Rapid transit|Metro]] railway station under construction in phase II of the [[Chennai Metro]]. The station is one among the 30 stations along Line 4 of the Chennai Metro. It is the terminal station for the stretch between [[Lighthouse, Chennai|Lighthouse]] and [[Poonamallee]]. The station will serve the neighbourhoods of [[Triplicane]], [[Mylapore]], and [[Santhome]].

==History==
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===Construction===

==The station==
Lighthouse is an underground metro station situated on Line 4. It will be built at a depth of about 18 to 20 metres below the ground. It will be built at the Dr. Radhakrishnan Salai and Kamarajar Salai junction, beneath the Gandhi statue on the [[Marina beach]].<ref name="Hindu_MarinaOnMetroMap">{{Cite news 
  | last = Sekar 
  | first = Sunitha 
  | title = Soon, Marina on the Metro map
  | newspaper = The Hindu
  | location = Chennai
  | pages = 
  | language = 
  | publisher = Kasturi & Sons
  | date = 26 April 2019
  | url = https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/soon-marina-to-be-on-the-metro-map/article26950476.ece
  | accessdate = 2 May 2019}}</ref>

===Station layout===
There will be two entrances for the Lighthouse metro station, one of which will be near the lighthouse.<ref name="Hindu_MarinaOnMetroMap"/>

===Facilities===
It has been estimated that by 2025, about 5,000 people would be using the Lighthouse metro station everyday.<ref name="Hindu_MarinaOnMetroMap"/>

==See also==
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* [[Chennai Metro]]
* [[Light House railway station]]
* [[List of Chennai metro stations]]
* [[Railway stations in Chennai]]
* [[Chennai Mass Rapid Transit System]]
* [[Chennai Monorail]]
* [[Chennai Suburban Railway]]
* [[Transport in Chennai]]
* [[Urban rail transit in India]]
* [[List of metro systems]]
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==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|http://chennaimetrorail.org/}}
{{Commons|Chennai Metro}}
{{Wikivoyage|Chennai}}
* [http://www.urbanrail.net ''UrbanRail.Net''] – descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations.

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{{Chennai Metro}}
{{Transport in Chennai}}
{{Rapid transit in India}}
{{Rapid transit in Asia}}

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[[Category:Railway stations in Chennai]]


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