{"id":649980,"date":"2025-10-25T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=649980"},"modified":"2025-10-25T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:36:00","slug":"chennai-4th-track-approved-between-tambaram-chengalpattu-line-eases-delays-boosts-connectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chennai-4th-track-approved-between-tambaram-chengalpattu-line-eases-delays-boosts-connectivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Chennai: 4th track approved between Tambaram-Chengalpattu line; eases delays &amp; boosts connectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Commuting from Chengalpattu to Chennai via Kilambakkam mofussil bus terminus is set to become easier, as the Railway Ministry has approved the long-awaited fourth railway track between Tambaram and Chengalpattu stations.<\/p>\n<p>The 30.02 km railway line will be executed at a cost of Rs 757.18 crore, with a three-year deadline for completion, including land acquisition. With Tambaram being developed as a terminal, the fourth line will allow more express trains to southern destinations, while suburban train operations will remain unaffected on dedicated tracks. The proposal, submitted in November last year, has now received official approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Commuting from Chengalpattu to Chennai via Kilambakkam mofussil bus terminus is set to become easier, as the Railway Ministry has approved the long-awaited fourth railway track between Tambaram and Chengalpattu stations. The 30.02 km railway line will be executed at a cost of Rs 757.18 crore, with a three-year deadline for completion, including land acquisition. With Tambaram being developed as a terminal, the fourth line will allow more express trains to southern destinations, while suburban train operations will remain unaffected on dedicated tracks. The proposal, submitted in November last year, has now received official approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"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-649980","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\/649980","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}