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2018-March 23: First TBM named Prerna reaches Esplanade station completing the section from Howrah Maidan to Esplanade. This tunnel will be used by Howrah bound tunnel. 2018-March 31: BEML delivers first metro train set to KMRC. The train sets to arrive in 20 days. Second train set will be delivered in the end of April.
Hooghly River Underwater metro tunnel segment East west metro tunnel underwater section journey East West Metro Tunnel, under Hooghly River – biggest underwater metro tunnel in India [4] Artists Conception of East west underwater metro at Esplanade Metro station Prime Minister Narendra Modi flags off the metro, with inaugurating the tunnel, with the Howrah Maidan-Esplanade stretch on March 6 ...
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]
The work has been sanctioned in 2010-11 for the new Metro line from Joka to B.B.D. Bagh for a length of 16.72 km (10.39 mi) at an anticipated cost of Rs. 2619.02 Crores. But, later the route was shortened and planned to terminate at Esplanade. A separate Depot was built by RVNL in Joka. The tender has gone to Simplex Infrastructures.
After 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 sections of Taratala-Majerhat under Line 3 and Esplanade-Howrah Maidan under Line 2. [7]
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 ...
Kolkata Metro has 50 operational stations, of which 21 are underground, 26 are elevated and 3 are at grade. Currently, Noapara is the largest metro station in the system and it will be the interchange station for the Blue Line and Yellow Line. Howrah metro station is the deepest metro station in India. [40]
The master plan had already identified the East-West corridor back in 1971. [7] It was planned to connect Howrah Railway Station with the Salt Lake region. [8] As per the feasibility investigation for the corridor conducted by Pacific Consultant International Group in January 2004; their plan report proposed the route and tubular structures to be beneath the Hooghly River.