The Violet Line (Line 6) is one of the lines of the

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, a

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system in

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. The line connects Kashmere Gate station in New Delhi with Raja Nahar Singh in

Ballabhgarh Ballabgarh, is a large town, nearby Faridabad city and a tehsil (subdistrict) in Faridabad district of Haryana, India, and is part of the National Capital Region. As was Gulab Singh Saini, the commander-in-chief of the army of state of Ballabh ...

via

Faridabad Faridabad is the most populous city in the Indian state of Haryana and a part of Delhi National Capital Region. It is one of the major satellite cities around Delhi and is located 284 kilometres south of the state capital Chandigarh. The ri ...

. The line consists of 32 metro stations with a total length of . This line acts as a parallel link for those, who travel in the heavily used Yellow Line and connects the interior parts of South Delhi, a little of Central Delhi to the satellite town of Faridabad. The stretch between

ITO metro station The Dabur ITO metro station is a station on the Delhi Metro, under the Violet Line. It was inaugurated on 8 June 2015 by the then Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The ITO metro station w ...

and

Kashmere Gate metro station The Kashmere Gate is a Delhi Metro station in Delhi, on the Red Line, Yellow Line and Violet Line. It is a transfer station between the Red Line on the highest upper level, the Yellow Line on the lowest underground level and Violet Lin ...

is popularly known as the Heritage Line.

History

The Violet Line was originally planned to open in March 2010. On 12 July 2009, a portion of a bridge under construction collapsed when its cantilever pier collapsed on load of launching girder at Zamrudpur, near East of Kailash, on the Central Secretariat – Badarpur corridor. Six people were killed and 15 others injured. The day after, on 13 July 2009, a crane that was removing the debris collapsed, and with a bowling pin effect collapsed two other nearby cranes, injuring six. An extension from the Badarpur metro station of the line was opened on 6 September 2015 to provide connectivity to the neighbouring satellite city of Faridabad. This is the second line to cross the Delhi-Haryana border after the Yellow Line to Gurgaon. This extension runs fully elevated for 13.87 km and has 9 stations. A further extension to Ballabhgarh ( Raja Nahar Singh metro station) was opened on 19 November 2018. The depot is in Ajronda, adjacent to

Neelam Chowk Ajronda metro station Neelam Chowk Ajronda is an elevated station on the Violet Line of the Delhi Metro. It is located between Old Faridabad and Bata Chowk stations on line 6. Station layout Facilities Connections Entry/Exit See also *Delhi *Faridaba ...

Stations

Train info

Rolling stock

This line has standard gauge trains manufactured by a consortium of Mitsubishi-ROTEM-BEML. A total of 196 cars were ordered for 4-car configuration (46 trains) and 6-car configuration (2 trains). These trains are used in this line and Green Line. One train was manufactured in Changwon in South Korea and rest of the trains are manufactured at BEML's facility in Bangalore. Trains are as compared to of

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trains.

References

External links

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (Official site)

Delhi Metro Annual Reports
{{Railways in Northern India Delhi Metro lines Railway lines opened in 2010