Gitanjali is an elevated metro station on the North-South corridor of the Blue Line of Kolkata Metro which is located in Naktala, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.[2][3] It is named after the famous 'Gitanjali' or Song Offerings, a collection of 103 English poems, largely translations, of the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore.
History
Station layout
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Station with two tracks and two side platforms
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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 Kavi Nazrul | |
Platform 1 Northbound |
Towards ← Dakshineshwar next station is Masterda Surya Sen | |
Side platform | Doors will open on the left | ||
L2 |
Connections
Bus
Bus route number 80A, 228, SD5, S112 (Mini), S113 (Mini), AC6, S6A, S7 etc. serve the station.[4][5]
See also
References
- ^ "Kolkata metro expands". Railway Gazette. 10 September 2009. Archived from the original on 14 March 2012. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
- ^ "Welcome to Metro Railway, Kolkata". Ontrack Systems. Archived from the original on 20 August 2007. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
- ^ "UrbanRail.net > Asia > India > West Bengal > Kolkata (Calcutta) Metro". UrbanRail.net. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
- ^ "(home)". Archived from the original on 18 August 2018. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
- ^ "Bus Services". Transport Department Government of West Bengal.
External links
- Kolkata/Southern fringes travel guide from Wikivoyage
- Kolkata/East travel guide from Wikivoyage
- Google. "Gitanjali metro station" (Map). Google Maps. Google.
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