Esplanade is an underground interchange metro station on the North-South corridor of the Blue Line and on the East-West corridor of the Green Line of Kolkata Metro in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. The station is located in the Esplanade neighbourhood of Kolkata, at the northern end of Chowringhee Road/Jawaharlal Nehru Road near New Market and the Oberoi Grand hotel. It opened in 1984 as part of what is now Kolkata Metro Line 1. The station is being re-designed to be the largest station of the metro and will function as the interchange station between Line 1, Line 2 and Line 3.

Station layout

See also

Transport in Kolkata

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References

External links

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UrbanRail.Net – descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations.

Esplanade metro station

Railway stations in India opened in 1984

Kolkata Metro stations

Railway stations in Kolkata

Esplanade metro station