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| url = http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130117/news-current-affairs/article/lack-counter-staff-irks-rail-passengers
| accessdate = 18 Jan 2013}}</ref>
 
== అభివృద్ధులు ==
[[File:ChennaiSuburbanRailway TambaramEMUCarShed.jpg|210px|thumb|కుడి|EMU car shed at Tambaram railway station]]
The first broad gauge line at Tambaram was laid in 1995-96, which was part of the broad gauge conversion from Egmore. In 2004, platform 2 was converted to broad gauge line. In 2008, platform 1 was built. Subsequently, the conversion of lines at platforms 3, 4 and 5 into broad gauge was taken up but had to be halted due to a shortage of funds.<ref name="FundShortageForGuageConversion">{{cite news
| last = Madhavan
| first = D
| title = Shortage of funds derails gauge conversion works at Tambaram
| newspaper = The Times of India
| location = Chennai
| pages =
| language =
| publisher = The Times Group
| date = 24 March 2012
| url = http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-24/chennai/31233546_1_gauge-conversion-broad-gauge-tambaram-station
| accessdate = 31 Mar 2012}}</ref>
 
A new station building with 10 ticket counters at the western side of the track was constructed at a cost of {{INR}} 13 million in 2003. Space was provided for food courts, coffee parlours, a medical shop and public call offices and also for shunting wagons. It was designed to have six retiring rooms, three of which were to be air-conditioned, in addition to two air-conditioned dormitories, deluxe waiting halls and a VIP lounge.<ref name="NewBuilding"/>
 
Along the lines of a similar facility at the Chennai Central railway station, the Southern Railways constructed a bus bay in 2006 to serve the more than 100,000 passengers who travel by Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) buses in Tambaram. On an average, Tambaram records an increase of 30,000 passengers every year for MTC buses. Everyday, 1,500 MTC buses are run from Tambaram to [[Mamallapuram]], [[Tiruporur]] (on OMR), [[Kovalam]] and [[Vadamalli]] (on ECR), [[Sriperumbudur]] and [[Walajabad]], among other places.<ref>{{cite news
| last = Madhavan
| first = D
| title = MTC begins operations from bus bay at Tambaram railway station
| newspaper = The Times of India
| location = Chennai
| pages =
| language =
| publisher = The Times Group
| date = 24 January 2009
| url = http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-01-24/chennai/28027577_1_mtc-buses-railway-station-bus-bay
| accessdate = 16 Oct 2011}}</ref>
 
On 5 January 2012, Southern Railway started preliminary works for shifting south-bound trains to Tambaram junction although there were protests against the proposal of making Tambaram the third terminal of Chennai after Chennai Central and Chennai Egmore. To begin with, the Southern Railway decided to construct an escalator at the main entrance and another at the eastern side (facing Madras Christian College). It was also decided to install common escalators for platforms 1 and 2 where passengers of suburban trains alight besides another one for passengers alighting from south-bound express trains on platforms 6 and 7, a feature already available at Egmore junction. The station has enough space to build three additional platforms.<ref>{{cite news
| last = Karthikeyan
| first = K.
|author2=P.A. Jebaraj
| title = Tambaram terminus work begins
| newspaper = Deccan Chronicle
| location = Chennai
| pages =
| language =
| publisher = Deccan Chronicle
| date = 6 January 2012
| url = http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/chennai/tambaram-terminus-work-begins-334
| accessdate = 6 Jan 2012}}</ref>
 
In 2014, an escalator connecting East Tambaram with the foot overbridge and platform 1A was installed in the station, the first of its kind in a suburban station around Chennai.<ref>{{cite news
| last = Madhavan
| first = T.
| title = Commuters at Tambaram station move up
| newspaper = The Hindu
| location = Chennai
| pages =
| language =
| publisher = The Hindu
| date = 21 April 2014
| url = http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/chen-infra/commuters-at-tambaram-station-move-up/article5931648.ece
| accessdate = 24 Apr 2014}}</ref>
 
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