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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 existing Esplanade metro station was upgraded and a subway was constructed to the new metro station to provide an interchange among Line 1, Line 2 and future Line 3. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] In 2009–2010, Line 1 underwent upgrades of services and amenities and many stations were renamed after famous personalities by then Minister of Railways Mamata ...
As of 6 March 2024, there are 50 metro stations in the network which includes 2 interchange stations. [2] Currently, there are four operational lines, the Blue Line (with 26 stations), Green Line (with 12 stations), Purple Line (with 7 stations) and Orange Line (with 5 stations). In future, there will be two other metro lines. [3]
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.
Blue Line is mostly underground with few elevated portions. The Blue Line is the oldest metro line in India, inaugurated in 1984. Kolkata Metro Line 2 (East-West Metro) is currently operational in two sections. First one between Sector 5 and Sealdah and second one between Esplanade and Howrah Maidan. The section between Sealdah and Esplanade is ...
This metro station is at ground level and located adjacent to New Garia railway station on the Sealdah - Sonarpur section. [ 2 ] After a lot of hardships and developmental work, the Kavi Subhash- Hemanta Mukhopadhyay section of Kolkata Metro Line 6 was inaugurated on 6 March 2024 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi , along with the truncated ...
Sealdah South section consists of a set of four lines which connect Sealdah in Kolkata with its southern suburbs and with the entire South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, India. It is a part of the Kolkata Suburban Railway and is under the jurisdiction of the Sealdah railway division of the Eastern Railway zone of Indian Railways .
Esplanade is an underground interchange metro station on the north–south corridor of the Blue Line and on the east–west corridor of the Green Line of Kolkata Metro in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] This station, which is the biggest in the city, is located in the Esplanade neighbourhood of Kolkata , at the northern end of ...