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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″N80°16′17″E / 13.10230°N 80.27143°E /13.10230; 80.27143 | ||||
| System |  Indian Railways andChennai Suburban Railway station | ||||
| Owned by | Ministry of Railways,Indian Railways | ||||
| Lines | West,North West andWest South lines ofChennai Suburban Railway. | ||||
| 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 station on theChennai Suburban Railway and serves the locality ofPulianthope &Moolakothalam, the confluence on theOtteri Nullah andBuckingham Canal, inChennai, India. The station is located at the southern end of the 'diamond' junction in Chennai, where all the lines of the Chennai Suburban Railway meet. It is the first station afterChennai Central. At this station, the line divides into three: one going towardsAvadi andArakkonam, the other towardsEnnore andGummidipoondi, and the third towardsChennai Beach andChennai Egmore. Thus, the station acts as the entry point to Chennai Central terminus where inbound trains from all the three lines are stopped before assigning a platform at Chennai Central. It also contains a railway maintenance shed with 19 pit-lines, each measuring 3-ft deep to accommodate about 24 coaches. The station has an elevation of 7 m abovesea level.
GMR Vasavi Diesel Power Plant, which has now been dismantled, was situated on the side of Basin bridge opposite to the railway station. Diesel pipes are laid fromChennai Port to Basin Bridge for fuel power of the plant. TheMadras Boating Club operates rowing events in this neighbourhood.
The lines at the station were electrified in 1979. On 13 April 1979, the Chennai Central–Gummidipoondi section was electrified and on 9 August 1979, the Basin Bridge–Chennai Beach section was electrified. On 29 November 1979, the lines on Chennai Central–Tiruvallur were electrified. The stabling and inspection lines at the station were electrified on 24 December 1979. The additional line between Basin Bridge and Vyasarpadi was electrified on 31 December 1985.[1]
As of 2013, the station handles about 10,000 passengers a day.[2]
The station is connected by roads to and from the following areas:
The station is covered by the₹ 400-million Integrated Security Surveillance System (ISSS) project implemented in 2012. The project, implemented jointly by the Southern Railways and HCL Infosystems, includes installation of CCTV cameras that would record visuals around the clock and store the data for 30 days, with the footage transmitted and stored using an Internet Protocol system.[3]
