Shahid Khudiram metro station

Shahid Khudiram is an elevated metro station on the North-South corridor of the Blue Line of Kolkata Metro which is close to Dhalai Bridge in Briji, Garia, a southern neighbourhood of Kolkata, West Bengal, India.^[2] This station is named in honour of the Bengali revolutionary Khudiram Bose. This structure is located above the drainage channel between Pranabananda Road and Garia Station Road at the west side of the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass.

Shahid Khudiram শহিদ ক্ষুদিরাম
Kolkata Metro station
Shahid Khudiram metro station
General information
Location	Garia Station Road, Garia, Kolkata, West Bengal 700084  India
Coordinates	22°27′57.5″N 88°23′30″E
Owned by	Metro Railway, Kolkata
Operated by	Kolkata Metro
Line(s)	Blue Line
Platforms	Side platform Platform-1 → Dakshineswar Platform-2 → Kavi Subhash
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Elevated, Double track
Platform levels	2
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	KSKD
History
Opened	7 October 2010; 14 years ago (2010-10-07) [1]
Previous names	Briji
Services Preceding station Kolkata Metro Following station Kavi Nazrul towards Dakshineswar Blue Line Kavi Subhash Terminus
Route map Legend Chord link Line to Dankuni Dakshineswar Pink Line to Barrackpore Baranagar Eastern Line to Ranaghat Noapara depot Noapara Keshtopur Canal Yellow Line to Barasat Eastern Line to Bongaon Dum Dum Belgachia Circular Line & Sealdah South Circular Canal Shyambazar Sovabazar Sutanuti Girish Park Mahatma Gandhi Road Central Chandni Chowk Green Line ← to Howrah Maidan to Teghoria → Esplanade Park Street Purple Line to Diamond Park Maidan Rabindra Sadan Netaji Bhavan Jatin Das Park Kalighat Tollygunge Rabindra Sarobar Circular Line & Sealdah South Mahanayak Uttam Kumar Tollygunge depot Netaji Masterda Surya Sen Gitanjali Kavi Nazrul Shahid Khudiram Orange Line to Jai Hind Sealdah South to Sealdah Kavi Subhash New Garia depot Sealdah South to Namkhana
Location

History

Station layout

Shahid Khudiram track layout
Legend
to Kavi Nazrul P1 P2 to Kavi Subhash Orange Line
Station with two tracks and two side platforms

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
L1	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent, Metro Card vending machines, crossover
L2	Side platform | Doors will open on the left
	Platform 2 Southbound	Towards → Kavi Subhash Change at the next station for Orange Line
	Platform 1 Northbound	Towards ← Dakshineshwar next station is Kavi Nazrul
	Side platform | Doors will open on the left
L2

Facilities

ATM is available here.

Connections

Bus

Bus route number 45B, JM2, S101/1 (Mini), S101/1A (Mini), S112 (Mini), AS3, C26, S6A, S9C, S24, AC14, AC24A etc serve the station.^[3]

Train

Garia railway station of Indian Railways is situated nearby.

See also

• Kolkata
• List of Kolkata Metro stations
• Transport in Kolkata
• Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation
• Kolkata Suburban Railway
• Kolkata Monorail
• Trams in Kolkata
• Garia
• E.M. Bypass
• List of rapid transit systems
• List of metro systems

References

1. "Kolkata metro reaches New Garia". Railway Gazette. 19 October 2010. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
2. "> Asia > India > West Bengal > Kolkata (Calcutta) Metro". UrbanRail.Net. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
3. "Bus Services".

External links

• Kolkata/Southern fringes travel guide from Wikivoyage
• Kolkata/East travel guide from Wikivoyage
• Official Website for line 1
• UrbanRail.Net – descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations.
• "Shahid Khudiram metro station" (Map). Google Maps.