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It serves the local areas of Khardaha and as well as Rahara in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area of North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, India. This railway station is well connected towards south with Sealdah (Station code: SDAH), which is one of India's major railway terminal serving the city of Kolkata.
This line will be one of the most important stretches of Kolkata Metro because it will connect the southern and the eastern parts of the city with Kolkata Airport. The total distance of this route will be 29.87 km (18.56 mi). It connects Line 1 at Kavi Subhash and will eventually connect Line 2 at Sector-V and Kaikhali and Line 4 at Airport.
Jai Hind (also referred to as Biman Bandar) is a metro station of Kolkata Metro. [2] It will serve the city of Kolkata's main airport, the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport. [3] As of October 2024 the station is planned to be open for service during March 2025. [1]
Jessore Road is an at grade level metro station of line 4 of Kolkata Metro. It is situated just beside Jessore Road near 1 no. gate of Kolkata airport. This station was proposed in Line 4, in the budget of 2010–11. It was a part of the integration of old line of Circular Railway from Dum Dum Cantonment to Biman Bandar. [2]
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport is just 3.9 km away from the station which was previously connected through Rail between 2006 and 2016. But after 2016 it was closed and dismantled. Currently only connection with it, is auto. But in future it will be connected also through Kolkata Metro Line 4. [8]
Automatic train operation (ATO) with the driver acting as the train supervisor (optional). A public address system is provided on the trains to announce approaching stations. A central dispatcher can contact any of the train crew and also make important announcements directly to passengers over the system.
Kolkata/North Kolkata travel guide from Wikivoyage; Official Website for line 1; UrbanRail.Net – descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations. "Shyambazar station" (Map). Google Maps
Platform 3 mostly handles Up train in the Sealdah-Dankuni chord line section, Sealdah-Baruipara local, the Sealdah-Bangaon section, Kolkata-Lalgola MEMU and Sealdah-Lalgola Passenger and MEMU trains. It also handles a few trains in the Up Sealdah-Main Line section and trains coming from Budge Budge, Majerhat through Ballygunge Junction.