Kavi Nazrul metro station

Kavi Nazrul কবি নজরুল
Garia Bazar Metro Station
General information
Location	Canal Side Road, Garia, Kolkata, West Bengal 700084   India
Coordinates	22°27′51″N88°22′50″E / 22.464172°N 88.380555°E / 22.464172; 88.380555
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	KKNZ
History
Opened	22 August 2009;15 years ago (2009-08-22) [1]
Previous names	Garia Bazar
Services Preceding station Kolkata Metro Following station Gitanjali towards Dakshineswar Blue Line Shahid Khudiram 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 → 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

Kavi Nazrul (formerly known as Garia Bazar) is an elevated metro station on the North-South corridor of the Blue Line of Kolkata Metro in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. ^{[2] [3]} It is named after the Bengali poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, who is the national poet of Bangladesh.

Station layout

Kavi Nazrul track layout
Legend
to Gitanjali P1 P2 to Shahid Khudiram
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 next station is Shahid Khudiram
	Platform 1 Northbound	Towards ← Dakshineshwar next station is Gitanjali
	Side platform | Doors will open on the left
L2

Connections

Bus

Garia bus stand is serving near the station.

Bus route number 80A, 80B, 218, 228, SD5, KB17, JM4, 007, M8/1 (Mini), S101 (Mini),S112 (Mini), S113(Mini), C43, S5, S6A, S7, S14, S15G, S21, AC37, AC5, AC6, AC37A, AC50, AC50A etc. serve near the station. ^{[4] [5]}

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 expands". Railway Gazette. 10 September 2009. Archived from the original on 14 March 2012. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
2. "Welcome to Kolmetro". www.kolmetro.com. Archived from the original on 20 August 2007. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
3. "UrbanRail.Net > Asia > India > West Bengal > Kolkata (Calcutta) Metro". Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
4. "Bus route | the Calcutta Tramways Company [1978] Ltd". Archived from the original on 18 August 2018. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
5. "Bus Services".

External links

• Kolkata/Southern fringes travel guide from Wikivoyage
• Kolkata/East 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.
• "Kavi Nazrul metro station" (Map). Google Maps .