Mahanayak Uttam Kumar metro station

Mahanayak Uttam Kumar (formerly known as Tollygunge) is an at-grade level metro station on the North-South corridor of the Blue Line of Kolkata Metro which is located in Tollygunge area in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.^[1][2][3][4]

Mahanayak Uttam Kumar মহানায়ক উত্তম কুমার
Kolkata Metro station
Mahanayak Uttam Kumar metro station
General information
Location	Deshapran Sashmal Road, Tollygunge, Kolkata, West Bengal 700040  India
Coordinates	22.494452°N 88.345154°E / 22.494452; 88.345154
Owned by	Metro Railway, Kolkata
Operated by	Kolkata Metro
Line(s)	Blue Line
Platforms	Side platform Platform-2 → Kavi Subhash Island platform Platform-1 → Dakshineswar Platform-1A → Dakshineswar
Tracks	3
Connections	Tollygunge Bus Terminal, Tollygunge Tram Depot
Construction
Structure type	At Grade, Double track
Parking	Yes
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	KMUK
History
Opened	29 April 1986; 38 years ago (1986-04-29)
Previous names	Tollygunge
Services Preceding station Kolkata Metro Following station Rabindra Sarobar towards Dakshineswar Blue Line Netaji 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 Circular Canal Shyambazar Sovabazar 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 Mahanayak Uttam Kumar Tollygunge depot Netaji Masterda Surya Sen Gitanjali Kavi Nazrul Shahid Khudiram Orange Line to Jai Hind Sealdah South to Sealdah Kavi Subhash New Garia depot Sealdah South to Namkhana
Location

The station has been named after Uttam Kumar, one of the most famous names of Indian Bengali Cinema.

The Tollygunge Golf Club is on the west side of the station, the Royal Calcutta Golf Club lies less than a kilometre to the east and ITC Sangeet Research Academy is a short distance south along the Deshapran Sashmal Road at Netaji Subash Chandra Bose Road.

Station layout

Mahanayak Uttam Kumar track layout
Legend
P2 to Netaji P1 to Rabindra Sarobar P1A to Rabindra Sarobar
Station with two tracks, one island and one side platforms

G	Street Level	Exit/ Entrance
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent, Ticket/token, shops
P	Side platform | Doors will open on the left
	Platform 2 Southbound	Towards → Kavi Subhash next station is Netaji
	Platform 1 Northbound	Towards ← Dakshineshwar next station is Rabindra Sarobar
	Island platform | P1 Doors will open on the left | P-1A Doors will open on the right
	Platform 1A Northbound	Towards ← Dakshineshwar next station is Rabindra Sarobar
P

Connections

Bus

Bus route number 12C/1B, 40A, 40B, 41, 41B, 47/1, 80A, 205, 205A, 208, 228, SD5, S112 (Mini), S113 (Mini), S114 (Mini), S117 (Mini), S188 (Mini), C8, C14/1, M7B, M16, M16A, M18, S2, S4C, S6A, S7, S17A, S31, AC4B, AC6, AC16, AC31, AC47, V1, V9, ST6 etc. serve the station.^[5][6]

Tram

Tram route number 24/29 serves the station.

See also

• Kolkata
• List of Kolkata Metro stations
• Transport in Kolkata
• Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation
• Kolkata Suburban Railway
• Kolkata Monorail
• Trams in Kolkata
• Garia
• Tollygunge
• E.M. Bypass
• List of rapid transit systems
• List of metro systems

2nd platform of Mahanayak Uttam Kumar metro station

References

1. "Kolkata metro expands". Railway Gazette. 10 September 2009. Archived from the original on 14 March 2012. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
2. "Welcome to Metro Railway, Kolkata". Archived from the original on 20 August 2007. Retrieved 1 September 2007.
3. "Calcuttaweb - Metro -underground subway railway system". Archived from the original on 21 November 2010. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
4. "UrbanRail.Net > Asia > India > West Bengal > Kolkata (Calcutta) Metro". Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
5. "Bus route | the Calcutta Tramways Company [1978] Ltd". Archived from the original on 18 August 2018. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
6. "Bus Services".

External links

• Kolkata/South travel guide from Wikivoyage
• Kolkata/Southern fringes 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.
• "Mahanayak Uttam Kumar metro station" (Map). Google Maps.