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The Esplanade metro station is a station of the Kolkata Metro.[1][2][3] 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.

Esplanade
Kolkata Metro station
Esplanade Metro station
General information
Location	Esplanade, Kolkata
Coordinates	22.564942°N 88.351699°E / 22.564942; 88.351699
Owned by	Kolkata Metro
Line(s)	Blue Line   Green Line   Purple line
Platforms	4 island platforms & 2 side platforms
Tracks	6
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	KESP
History
Opened	1984[1][2][3]
Electrified	750 V DC Third Rail
Services
Preceding station Kolkata Metro Following station Chandni Chowk towards Dakshineswar Line 1 Park Street towards Kavi Subhash Sealdah towards Salt Lake Sector-V Line 2 Mahakaran towards Howrah Maidan Park Street towards Joka Line 3 (under construction) Terminus
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 Legend Line 6 Teghoria (Haldiram)  Orange Line  Raghunathpur Baguiati Dum Dum Park Kestopur Salt Lake Sector-V  Orange Line  Line 6 Karunamoyee Central Park Central Park depot City Center Bengal Chemical Salt Lake Stadium Circular Line Phoolbagan Sir Gurudas Banerjee Halt Circular Line Circular Canal Sealdah crossover Eastern line & Chord link line Sealdah Sealdah South lines Line 1 Esplanade Line 1 Line 3 Line 3 Mahakaran Hooghly River Howrah Howrah Maidan Eastern line & Howrah–Bardhaman chord South Eastern line
Location
Esplanade Location within Kolkata

The station

Structure

Esplanade is underground interchange metro station for the Line 1, Line 2 and Line 3 of Kolkata Metro.

Layout

Esplanade track layout
Legend
to Chandni Chowk to Park Street
Station with two tracks and one Island platform

 Line 1 

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, tickets, station agent, shops
P	Southbound	Towards → Kavi Subhash next station is Park Street
	Island platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound	Towards ← Dakshineshwar next station is Chandni Chowk

 Line 2 

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, tickets, station agent, shops
P	Side platform, doors open on the left
	Eastbound	Towards → Salt Lake Sector-V next station is Sealdah
	Island platform, doors open on the right
	Westbound	Towards → Howrah Maidan next station is New Mahakaran
	Side platform, doors open on the left

 Line 3 

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, tickets, station agent, shops
P	Side platform, doors open on the left
	Northbound	Terminus
	Island platform, doors open on the right
	Southbound	→ toward Joka (Park Street)
	Side platform, doors open on the left

See also

• Transport in Kolkata

Other Wikimedia projects

• Kolkata/Esplanade travel guide from Wikivoyage
• Kolkata/Maidan travel guide from Wikivoyage

References

External links

• kolmetro
• UrbanRail.Net – descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations.
• Google. "Esplanade station" (Map). Google Maps. Google.

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