Kavi Subhash (formerly known as New Garia) is the at-grade southern terminus and interchange metro station of the North-South corridor (Blue Line) and Bypass Corridor (Orange Line) of Kolkata Metro in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is named after poet Subhash Mukhopadhyay.[1] This station was opened to public on the auspicious day of Mahalaya in 2010.
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This metro station is at ground level and located adjacent to New Garia railway station on the Sealdah - Sonarpur section.[2]
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.[3][4][5][6][7]
Station layout edit
Kavi Subhash track layout | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Station with two tracks and two side platforms
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| G | Street Level | Exit/Entrance
Fare control, station agent, Metro Card vending machines, crossover |
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| P | Side platform | Doors will open on the left 
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| Platform 2 Southbound |
Towards → Train Terminates Here | |
| Platform 1 Northbound |
Towards ← Dakshineshwar next station is Shahid Khudiram | |
| Side platform | Doors will open on the left
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Kavi Subhash track layout | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Station with two tracks, one island and two side platforms
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| G | Street level | Exit/Entrance |
| B | Basement | Car Parking |
| M | Mezzanine | Fare control, station agent, Ticket/token, shops, Crossover |
| L1 | Side platform | Doors will open on the left
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| Platform 3 Southbound |
Towards → Jai Hind next station is Satyajit Ray | |
| Island platform | Doors will open on the right Orange Line | ||
| Platform 4 Northbound |
Towards ← Train Terminates Here | |
| Side platform | Doors will open on the left
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| L2 | Side platform | Doors will open on the left
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| Northbound | Towards → Train Terminates Here | |
| Southbound | Towards ← Proposed Baripur Metro Corridor | |
| Side platform doors will open on the left
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| L2 | ||
Connections edit
Bus edit
Bus route number 1B, 206, S116 (Mini), S124 (Mini) etc. serve the station.[8]
Train edit
It is Connected to New Garia railway station on Sealdah South Mainline.
Air edit
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport is connected via VIP Road and EM Bypass, with a distance of 24.3 km.
Gallery edit
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Kavi Subhash metro station blue line Complex as seen from orange line -
Kavi Subhash metro station orange line Complex as seen from blue line -
Kavi Subhash metro station blue line Complex platform -
Kavi Subhash metro station orange line Complex platform -
Kavi Subhash metro station depot and carshed as seen from orange line -
Kavi Subhash metro station interchange -
Kavi Subhash metro stationinterchange as seen from orange line Complex -
Kavi Subhash metro station interchange as seen from blue line Complex -
Kavi Subhash metro station interchange lift -
Goddess Durga statue in Kavi Subhash metro station interchange
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Kolkata metro reaches New Garia". Railway Gazette. 19 October 2010. Archived from the original on 13 January 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
- ^ > Asia > India > West Bengal > Kolkata (Calcutta) Metro Archived 29 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine. UrbanRail.Net. Retrieved on 2013-10-05.
- ^ "Hope for ops start of three new Metro links in March first week". The Times of India. 19 February 2024. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
- ^ "এগোচ্ছে কাজ, নিউ গড়িয়ায় মিলবে তিনটি মেট্রোপথ" (in Bengali). Kolkata: www.anandabazar.com. Anandabazar. 15 May 2021. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
- ^ "Metro Railway Kolkata / Indian Railways Portal". mtp.indianrailways.gov.in. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
- ^ "India's deepest Metro station at Howrah also to be the largest". The Times of India. 1 March 2024. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
- ^ "Metro Railway Kolkata / Indian Railways Portal". mtp.indianrailways.gov.in. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
- ^ "Bus Services".
External links edit
Kolkata/Southern fringes travel guide from Wikivoyage- Kolkata/East travel guide from Wikivoyage
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