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Line 6 (Orange Line) is a rapid transit metro line of the Kolkata Metro in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It will connect New Garia with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport via two major satellite towns of Kolkata metropolitan region, Salt Lake and New Town. It currently operates between Kavi Subhash and Hemanta Mukhopadhyay.
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]
Dum Dum Cantonment metro station. An amount of Rs 227 crore contract to build this station along with a mostly at-grade 2.16 km (1.34 mi) section from the Bagjola Canal to the existing ramp of the Airport Circular Railway track was awarded to Senbo Engineering Limited all the way back in June 2011.
Station entrances and exits are at the ground level (G). The second level (L1) houses station fare control, station agents, metro card vending machines, crossovers etc. The third level (L2) houses the platforms and rail tracks. [12] Hemanta Mukhopadhyay metro station Gate No. 2. The station has four entrances and exits.
This portion was served by four-car trains. Two months later, the Esplanade – Chandni Chowk section was opened and Chandni Chowk – Central section opened three months later. The service from Dum Dum to Tollygunge started in 1995, with Mahatma Gandhi Road metro station, opening in 1996. During this time, more magnetic gates and escalators ...
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 ...
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 work of integrating the Circular Railway from Dum Dum Cantonment to Biman Bandar into a 6.249 km (3.883 mi) new metro line from Noapara to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport was sanctioned in the 2010–2011 budget. [49]