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Sealdah (also known as DTDC Sealdah Metro for sponsorship reasons) is an important underground metro station on the East-West corridor of the Green Line of Kolkata Metro, located in Sealdah, Kolkata. The underground station adjoins with the Sealdah railway station of the Indian Railways on its eastern side.
Sealdah metro station is an operational station on Line 2 (Green Line) of the Kolkata Metro, located in Sealdah, Kolkata. The underground station adjoins with the Sealdah railway station of the Indian Railways on its eastern side.
This is the list of the stations of Kolkata Metro, a Mass Rapid transit Urban Railway network serving the city of Kolkata, India.It was the first underground railway to be built in India, with the first operations commencing in October 1984 and the full stretch that was initially planned being operational by February, 1995. [1]
This made the line and the Kolkata Metro the first metro to run underwater in India, [7] [20] leaving the gap between Esplanade and Sealdah as the only remaining unopened section of the line. Just before the tunnel enters the underwater segment , lies a ventilation shaft on the Kolkata bank of Hooghly River , which is the deepest of its kind in ...
The New Garia Station serve as major interchange with the Line 1 and Line 6 of the Kolkata Metro [12] while Tollygunge, Sealdah and Majerhat serve as interchanges with Line 1, Line 2 and Line 3 of the Kolkata Metro respectively. [13] [14] A new metro line from New Garia to Baruipur has been proposed as well. [15] [16]
Sealdah railway station handles in all around 20 lakh (2 million) passengers daily. A bulk of those using the station, around 12 lakhs, commute daily for work in 917 local trains. The East-West Metro line connects to a station at Sealdah and around 5 lakh passengers are likely to use the Metro station. [15] [16]
The Sealdah Main and North section lines are fully electrified with a 25 kV AC overhead system. The electrification process started in 1963 from Sealdah to Ranaghat. The Ranaghat–Shantipur and Ranaghat–Krishnanagar City lines were electrified in 1964. [17] The ACCL and Kalyani Simanta branch lines were electrified in 1972 and 1979 respectively.
The line acts as a major connecting link between the Sealdah South and the Sealdah North sections of the Kolkata Suburban Railway. [ 1 ] Kolkata railway station , one of the major railway stations of Kolkata , lies on this line and acts as a major terminus for many national and international long-distance trains like the Akal Takht Express ...