City Railway Station Metro Station (Bangalore)
Krantivira Sangolli Rayanna Railway Station (formerly known as City Railway Station) is an underground metro station on the East-West corridor of the Purple Line of Namma Metro which serves the Subhash Nagar area, Sevashrama area in Bangalore, India. It was opened to the public on 30 April 2016.
A foot overbridge connecting the metro station with platform 10 of the Bangalore City railway station was opened on 18 February 2019. The BMRC reported that monthly ridership at the metro station was 175,000 passengers per day prior to opening the bridge, and increased to 250,000 two months after its opening.
Station layout
Krantivira Sangolli Rayanna Railway Station track layout | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Station with two tracks and one Island platform
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G | Street Level | Exit/ Entrance |
M | Mezzanine | Fare control, station agent, Ticket/token, shops |
P | Platform 1 Eastbound |
Towards → Whitefield (Kadugodi) Next Station: Nadaprabhu Kempegowda Stn., Majestic Change at the next station for Green Line |
Island platform | Doors will open on the right | ||
Platform 2 Westbound |
Towards ← Challaghatta Next Station: Magadi Road |
Entry/Exits
There are 5 Entry/Exit points – A, B, C, D and E. Commuters can use either of the points for their travel.
- Entry/Exit point A: Towards KSR Bengaluru Railway Stn.
- Entry/Exit point B: Towards Shree Angala Parameshwari Temple side
- Entry/Exit point C: Towards Tank Bund Road side
- Entry/Exit point D: Towards Tank Bund Road side with wheelchair accessibility
- Entry/Exit point E: Towards Minerva Mills Road side
See also
- Bangalore
- List of Namma Metro stations
- Transport in Karnataka
- List of metro systems
- List of rapid transit systems in India
- Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation
References
- ^ "Metro ready but how do we get to the station?". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
- ^ "Bridge linking boosts Bengaluru metro ridership". Deccan Herald. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Namma Metro.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Bangalore.
- Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (Official site)
- UrbanRail.Net – descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations.