Kalighat metro station

Kalighat কালীঘাট
Kolkata Metro station
Shrine of Mother Kali at the station
General information
Location	Rashbehari Avenue, Kalighat, Kolkata, West Bengal 700029 India
Coordinates	22°31′00″N88°20′46″E / 22.516652°N 88.346003°E / 22.516652; 88.346003
Owned by	Metro Railway, Kolkata Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation
Operated by	Kolkata Metro
Line(s)	Blue Line
Platforms	Island platform Platform-1 → Dakshineshwar Platform-2 → Kavi Subhash
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Underground, Double track
Platform levels	2
Other information
Station code	KKHG
History
Opened	29 April 1986;39 years ago (1986-04-29)
Electrified	750 V DC Third Rail
Services Preceding station Kolkata Metro Following station Jatin Das Park towards Dakshineswar Blue Line Rabindra Sarobar towards Kavi Subhash
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 → Purple Line to Eden Gardens 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

Kalighat is an underground metro station on the North-South corridor of the Blue Line of Kolkata Metro at Rashbehari Avenue in Kalighat, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Station layout

Kalighat track layout
Legend
to Jatin Das Park P1 P2 to Rabindra Sarobar
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 ← Dakshineswar next station is Jatin Das Park

Connections

Tram

Tram route number 24/29 serves the station.

See also

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

References

1. "Welcome to Metro Railway, Kolkata". Archived from the original on 20 August 2007. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
2. "Calcuttaweb - Metro -underground subway railway system". Archived from the original on 21 November 2010. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
3. "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
• Old official website for Blue Line ^{[ usurped ]}
• UrbanRail.Net – descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations.
• "Kalighat station" (Map). Google Maps .