Tambaram Railway Station Issues - Review

•  To prevent public comments of new tambaram railway station to opened in December as no major new facilities created for public. Please implement following suggestions as quickly as possible. All facilities were engineering facilities for Railways to benefit but nothing much for public. And nothing much has changed basically for public facilities. 1. LED display of train timing, details, pf no in tambaram east visible from entrance 2. led display of coach position 3. train stoppage increase to 4 mins 4. New shelters or replace very old ones 5. New trains to thiruvannamalai immediately with EMU as fast local
• Lack of Train timings, train details, platform details outside tambaram east side booking counter. If it is placed near staircase of east side facing towards east entrance it will help a lot to quickly glance and proceed. The details must be visible on viewing from the tambaram entrance itself for quickly deciding. The display TV on foot over bridge must be in working condition any issue must be quickly rectified. Same case with west side entry also. LED display will be much better since LED TV dont work for years and suddenly get issues. LED Display has long life.
• Public have been requesting for several years that Tambaram station (TBM) lacks display of coach position in the platform to indicate the next train no, train name in scrolling text, the coach position, the estimated arrival time. Public have to run helter skelter when train comes not knowing where exactly the coach will come and train stops for very few mins. But in stations like chengalpet, thanjavur, and villupuram a intermediary station the functionalities to display coach position are there. But in tambaram it is missing. It hardly costs few thousands with thousands of passengers boarding every day and revenue earnt. Same can be considered for mambalam station also.
• All trains stopping in Tambaram must be increased from 2 mins to 4 mins considering the huge crowd boarding and the huge baggage's nowadays everyone takes along. In 2 mins it is not possible for senior citizens to board and with baggage's. Any way trains have enough cushion time for further journey and it can be covered up. Where people board in large numbers it will be beneficial. People dont worry of train delays of upto 30 mins at destination also. It will help a lot to many. I see many running to catch trains day in and out.
• The roofs for express train departure are leaking during rains. It has not been replaced as per station development plans.  The same old roofs are being used and not a single inch has been replaced before opening new Tambaram terminal. Which is not fair. The roofs must be wide enough so that during rains the platforms dont get wet also.
• Lack of visible RPF presence along the platforms at all times in both express departure and suburban platform (zero presence). The RPF are available at times in express departure during peak hours but not always with space for them to stay. The railways has to create small room for them to stay and monitor cctv footage. Security has been a major concern.
• Lack of more vendors in express departure platform post half of the platform. Scope for more revenue.
• Cars are parked in tambaram east side without having any specific car parking area allotted. Southern railway has given tender but you have space near bike parking. The tambaram east must be for entry and exit and not permanent parking blocking passengers who come in taxi and auto to enter and exit. Take help of RPF and TN Traffic police to manage situation.
• Toilets in platforms middle portion will help a lot in express departure and suburban platforms with high usage. Toilets in suburban platforms with good discharge and constant cleaning will help. A cleaner appointed with modern machines to quickly clean will help prevent unsuitability after few months due to stench and unclean place.There is new toilet build in tambaram east side is much appreciated.
• The lack of drinking water refill counters in Tambaram station is missing for long distance train departure platforms.
• Need for departure trains from tambaram to Trichy, Thiruvannamalai, Tirupathi,  Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Rameswaram to put it in Indian map of key railway stations. Some of the existing trains can be extended upto tambaram and some new. Dont create a situation of no new trains from tambaram it will be total waste. The ICF train rakes of pandian and rockfort which were converted to LHB must also be put to use with at least few non premium trains to trichy and bangalore.
• People are eagerly awaiting start of A/C EMU coaches in Chennai suburban section. Why cant ICF run A/C EMU coaches as fast local to earn more revenue. Take a deadline of April 2017 for chennai A/C EMU.
• Need to build one escalators in downward direction in tambaram east side. Why only escalator in one direction only. Some big time failure in thinking. You can get sponsors for ad space in existing elevator to check . The ads can be placed as people move upward and put ads above escalator and in sides of the railings. Based on testing the earning you can calculate the time to recover cost. also in next 2 months you can construct downward escalator also before opening otherwise people will mock that no new facility was created but just opened. 
• In next one year we need for large lifts and escalator in downward direction to express departure platform.
• Please build compound wall between tambaram to tambaram sanitorium station many places people tend to enter the station compound. There is no RPF also to monitor these things. Compounds in many areas have been broken by contractors and mischief mongers. So please raise it to avoid line crossing. 
• Need for fast local every one hour upto 11AM also. Currently there is no fast local post 9 AM. But in a city like chennai we have work shifts round the clock. But if no fast local after 9AM it is affecting many who go for afternoon shift. Dont outrightly reject but try to run a few. In future fast locals can be converted to AC EMU by april 2017. Chennai suburban should start AC EMU as soon as possible dont wait for budgets. already mumbai got its share. Adding more fast in evening from 4PM  - 7PM also.
• Lack of trains from Chennai Beach to Thiruvannamalai (Shiva temple) as fast local to benefit the religious people and tourists. The route upto villupuram has double line and can be used effectively. In case of preference to express trains then the same can be overtaken at necessary stations with proper planning. There is currently no direct service and lakhs of public travel daily. But specifically all Govts after BG conversion avoided running new trains in this route. The route is electrified and can be used for running existing EMU trains which run as fast local. Atleast 4 trips can be possible daily as an initial trial. The demand is very high on Friday, Saturday and Sunday in both ways.  Same way an EMU from chengalpet to tirupathi can be launched as fast local EMU for religious tourists especially in weekends. There is space in this route to operate with double line. I think Railways has necessary tools.
• The pondicherry passenger is lying wasted in Tambaram station from morning. It can be used to run a passenger from Tambaram to Thiruvannamalai as first choice daily and on few days to tirupathi also. And the same rake can be used again anyway at tambaram no maintenance is being done. The pondicherry passenger is not maintained also because its schedule is some where else for maintenance. Atleast run as train for heaven sake to benefit public at suitable timings atleast in weekends.
• It was expected that Tambaram station enough space for a 2 new platforms to be build. But Railway officials may be are planning to use existing long distance trains platforms itself when there was enough space available. The new 2 platforms can be used for departure of new trains. But i dont know if Railway has planned well to use existing platforms for departure which might affect in near future say 5 years.
• By April 2017 Southern Railway must launch free wi-fi inside the suburban trains. People need inside trains and not in stations. Nobody stays in station more than half hour and no use it will be to anyone. Inside trains which travel more than 12 hours and in non AC compartment and unreserved will help a lot. In unreserved if preference is given for free wi-fi it will help to pass time in the heavy rush and the pain people have to endure in long distance unreserved travel. It will also give good test for the wifi at peak levels instead of testing with AC compartments in which very less travel and also they have dongle of their own or have good data packs. The poor and middle class travel in unreserved hence facilities for them will help.
• Many areas along GST and in suburban routes have not been compounded after tambaram stations leading to public crossing at night time. The drivers can not even expect and it leads to deaths. Atleast in key sections where people cross please compund it.