Kalighat metro station
Kalighat is a station of the Kolkata Metro,[1][2] located on Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Road at Rashbehari More, Kalighat.[3]
![]() Kalighat কালীঘাট | |||||||||||
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Kolkata Metro station | |||||||||||
![]() Shrine of Mother Kali at the station | |||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||
Location | Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Road, Lake Market, Kalighat, Kolkata, West Bengal 700029 | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 22.516652°N 88.346003°E | ||||||||||
Owned by | Kolkata Metro | ||||||||||
Line(s) | Blue Line | ||||||||||
Platforms | Island platform | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||
Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||
Platform levels | 2 | ||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||
Station code | KG | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | April 29, 1986 | ||||||||||
Electrified | 750 V DC Third Rail | ||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||
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Location | |||||||||||
![]() ![]() Kalighat Location within Kolkata |
Construction
The station
Structure
Kalighat is underground metro station, situated on the Kolkata Metro Line 1 of Kolkata Metro.
Station layout
Kalighat track layout | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Station with two tracks and one Island platform |
G | Street Level | Exit/ Entrance |
M | Mezzanine | Fare control, station agent, Ticket/token, shops |
P | Platform 2 Southbound |
Towards → Kavi Subhash next station is Rabindra Sarobar |
Island platform | Doors will open on the right ![]() | ||
Platform 1 Northbound |
Towards ← Dakshineshwar next station is Jatin Das Park |
Connections
Tram
Tram route number 24/29 serves the station.
See also
References
- "Welcome to Metro Railway, Kolkata". Archived from the original on 20 August 2007. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
- "Calcuttaweb - Metro -underground subway railway system". Archived from the original on 21 November 2010. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
- "UrbanRail.Net > Asia > India > West Bengal > Kolkata (Calcutta) Metro". Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
External links
Kolkata/South 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.
- Google. "Kalighat station" (Map). Google Maps. Google.
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