Colaba railway station
Defunct railway station in Maharashtra, India / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Colaba Railway Station was a railway station on the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway (BB&CI) located in Colaba in then South Bombay (now South Mumbai.)
Colaba Railway Station | |||||
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Mumbai Suburban Railway station | |||||
General information | |||||
Coordinates | 18°54′58″N 72°49′29.5″E | ||||
Owned by | Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway | ||||
Line(s) | Western Line | ||||
Platforms | 3 | ||||
Tracks | 18°54'58.0"N 72°49'29.5"E | ||||
Construction | |||||
Structure type | Standard on-ground station | ||||
History | |||||
Opened | 1872/1873 | ||||
Closed | 31 December 1930 | ||||
Rebuilt | 7 April 1896 | ||||
Services | |||||
No service demolished
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The original BB&CI terminus was at Grant Road. This was subsequently extended to Churchgate in 1870 and to Colaba, at the southern tip of the island, in 1873. However, by the 1920s, the Government of Bombay ordered the Railway to hand over the section between Churchgate and Colaba to facilitate the development of Backbay Reclamation project, now Nariman Point. After the new Bombay Central station was opened in 1930, the line between Churchgate and Colaba was closed and removed.[1][2]