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Belgachia metro station (or Theism Belgachia metro station for sponsorship reasons) is a station of the Kolkata Metro.[1][2][3] It is located at Belgachia.

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Belgachia
Kolkata Metro station
Belgachia Metro Station Gate 1
General information
Other names	Theism Belgachia metro station
Location	Belgachia Road, Belgachia, Kolkata, West Bengal 700037
Coordinates	22°36′21″N 88°23′11″E
Owned by	Metro Railway, Kolkata
Line(s)	Blue Line
Platforms	Island platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Underground, Double-track
Platform levels	2
Other information
Station code	KBEL
History
Opened	1984 & 1995
Electrified	750 V DC Third Rail
Services
Preceding station Kolkata Metro Following station Dum Dum towards Dakshineswar Line 1 Shyambazar 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 lines Circular Canal Shyambazar Shobhabazar 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 lines Mahanayak Uttam Kumar Tollygunge depot Netaji Masterda Surya Sen Gitanjali Kavi Nazrul Shahid Khudiram  Orange Line  to Biman Bandar Sealdah South lines to Sealdah Kavi Subhash New Garia depot Sealdah South lines to Namkhana
Location
Theism Belgachia Location within Kolkata

History

Belgachia Station was commissioned by the Kolkata Metro as part of the first transit line of the metro system, commonly known as the North-South corridor. The station was the penultimate stop before Dum Dum, which, until the opening of the Noapara stop, was the terminal station on the railway system. The station became the first underground station on the northern side and continues to be one of the shallowest, lying at a depth of only 5 metres below Belgachia Road.^{[citation needed]}

As part of the drive to increase non-fare revenue of the Kolkata Metro, the station was leased for branding and semi-naming rights to Kolkata-based conglomerate, Theism Group, rebranding it as Theism Belgachia officially. It was redecorated and rebranded by the corporate organization to become India's first health station. [4]

The station

Structure

Belgachia is underground metro station, situated on the Kolkata Metro Line 1 of Kolkata Metro.

Island platform
Legend

Station layout

Dum Dum track layout
Legend
to Dum Dum to Shyambazaar
Station with two tracks and one Island platform

G	Street Level	Exit/ Entrance
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent, Ticket/token, Theism Diagnostics kiosk
P	Southbound	Towards → Kavi Subhash next station is Shyambazaar
	Island platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound	Towards ← Dakshineshwar next station is Dum Dum

Connections

Auto

Autos ply on Belgachia-Lake Town and Belgachia-Bangur Avenue routes.

Bus

Bus route number 3B (Paikpara), 3C/1, 3C/2, 3D (Paikpara), 3D/1 (Paikpara), 30C, 30D, 47B, 79B, 91, 91A, 93, 211A, 215/1, 219 (Paikpara), 219/1 (Paikpara), 227, DN18, KB16, S160 (Mini), C11, T8, AC40 etc. serve the station.[5][6]

Train

Kolkata railway station, Patipukur railway station and Tala railway station are located nearby.

Gallery

• 
  Belgachia Metro Station Gate 3
• 
  Belgachia Dum Dum bound platform
• 
  Shyambazar bound tracks at Belgachia
• 
  A view of the platform naming board at Belgachia
• 
  Theism Diagnostics Kiosk at Belgachia

Entry/Exit

Gate No. 1	Gate No. 2	Gate No. 3
Duttabagan Milk Colony	CTC (WBTC) Depot	Main Gate- West Bengal University of Animal & Fishery Sciences

See also

References

External links

• Kolkata/North Kolkata travel guide from Wikivoyage
• Official Website for line 1
• UrbanRail.Net – descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations.
• Google. "Belgachia station" (Map). Google Maps. Google.

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