Chennai Central railway station
Architecture
### Architecture

Built in the [Gothic Revival](/wiki/Gothic_Revival_architecture "Gothic Revival architecture") style, the original station was designed by George Harding and consisted of four platforms and a capacity to accommodate 12\-coach trains. It took another five years for the work to be completed, when the station was modified further by [Robert Fellowes Chisholm](/wiki/Robert_Fellowes_Chisholm "Robert Fellowes Chisholm") with the addition of the central clock tower, Travancore 'caps' on the main towers, and other changes.Madras – The Architectural Heritage, , p53 The redesign was eventually completed in 1900\. The main building, a combination of [Gothic](/wiki/Gothic_architecture "Gothic architecture") and [Romanesque](/wiki/Romanesque_architecture "Romanesque architecture") styles has been declared as a [heritage building](/wiki/Heritage_structures_in_Chennai "Heritage structures in Chennai"). The clock tower with the flagstaff, the tallest of the towers of the main building, has four faces and reaches a height of 136 ft. It is set to chime every quarter of an hour and every hour.

The station has a platform area of 51,182 square metres (excluding the suburban station building) and the total building area of the main station is 14,062 square metres.


Who designed the original station?