Shahid Khudiram Metro Station is a station of the

Kolkata Metro The Kolkata Metro is a rapid transit system serving the city of Kolkata in West Bengal, India. , it has two operational lines, a line from Dakshineswar to Kavi Subhash and a line from Salt Lake Sector V to Sealdah, for a total of . Four o ...

close to

Dhalai Bridge ''Dhalai Bridge (Briji)'' is a neighbourhood located in Garia, Kolkata, India. It is surrounded by Baishnabghata Patuli to the north, New Garia and Garia railway station to the east, Garia Bazar to the west and Kamalgazi to the south. See re ...

in Briji,

Garia Garia ( Bengali:গড়িয়া) is a neighborhood in southern Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is bordered by the neighborhoods of Jadavpur in the north, Bansdroni/Tollygunge in the north-west, Santoshpur/ Mukundapur in the north-east a ...

, a southern neighbourhood of

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. The station is named in honour of the Bengali revolutionary

Khudiram Bose Khudiram Bose (also spelled ''Khudiram Basu'') (3 December 1889 – 11 August 1908) was an Indian revolutionary from Bengal Presidency who opposed British rule of India. For his role in the Muzaffarpur Conspiracy Case, along with Prafulla ...

. The elevated structure is located above the drainage channel between Pranabananda Road and Garia Station Road at the west side of the

Eastern Metropolitan Bypass The Eastern Metropolitan Bypass (known simply as both ''E.M. Bypass'' and ''EM Bypass'') is a (Including Kamalgazi to Baruipur extension) major road on the east side of Kolkata. It connects Ultadanga (North Kolkata) to Baruipur Puratan Baza ...

History

Construction

The station

Structure

Shahid Khudiram elevated metro station is situated on the

Kolkata Metro Line 1 The Line 1, Blue Line, also known as North–South Metro of the Kolkata Metro, is a rapid transit system serving South 24 Parganas, Kolkata and North 24 Parganas in Indian state of West Bengal. It consists of 26 operational stations from Dakshi ...

Station layout

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.

Train

Garia railway station Garia railway station is a Kolkata Suburban Railway station on the Main line. It is under the jurisdiction of the Sealdah railway division in the Eastern Railway zone of the Indian Railways. It serves the local area of Garia in Kolkata in the I ...

Indian Railways Indian Railways (IR) is a statutory body under the ownership of Ministry of Railways, Government of India that operates India's national railway system. It manages the fourth largest national railway system in the world by size, with a tot ...

is situated nearby.

References

External links

* *
Official Website for line 1

''UrbanRail.Net''
– descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations. * Kolkata Metro stations Railway stations opened in 2010 Railway stations in Kolkata {{Asia-metro-stub