{"id":440848,"date":"2021-10-07T11:47:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T06:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=440848"},"modified":"2021-10-07T13:51:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T08:21:12","slug":"chennai-railway-spruces-up-st-thomas-mount-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chennai-railway-spruces-up-st-thomas-mount-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Chennai: Railway spruces up St Thomas Mount station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The work on laying the last few metres of the elevated Velachery-St Thomas Mount MRTS extension line has picked up pace and Southern Railway has begun developing St Thomas Mount railway station into a multi-modal hub. <\/p>\n<p>A series of amenities are being installed to provide the station a facelift and also to enable it to handle the crowd of passengers expected from metro rail, suburban and MRTS trains. A broad foot over-bridge with three escalators and which can accommodate double the number of people than a regular facility is being readied. The machines have been installed and the roofing work is on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The work on laying the last few metres of the elevated Velachery-St Thomas Mount MRTS extension line has picked up pace and Southern Railway has begun developing St Thomas Mount railway station into a multi-modal hub. A series of amenities are being installed to provide the station a facelift and also to enable it to handle the crowd of passengers expected from metro rail, suburban and MRTS trains. A broad foot over-bridge with three escalators and which can accommodate double the number of people than a regular facility is being readied. The machines have been installed and the roofing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,260,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}