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{{Use Indian English|date=January 2016}}
{{Infobox station
| name = Cubbon Park
| type = [[Namma Metro]] station
| style = Namma Metro
| image = Cubbon Park Metro station interior.jpg
| image_size =
| image_caption = First level of the interior, after the ticket [[turnstiles]]. The platform level is seen at the foot of the stairs.
| address = Ambedkar Veedhi, Sampangi Rama Nagar, Bengaluru, [[Karnataka]] 560001
| country = India
| coordinates = {{coord|12.981095|77.596860|display=inline,title}}
| line = {{color box|#{{Namma Metro color|Purple}}}} [[Purple Line (Namma Metro)|Purple Line]]
| other =
| structure = Underground
| platform = [[Island platform]]
Platform-1 →[[Baiyappanahalli metro station|Baiyappanahalli]] Platform-2 → [[Kengeri metro station|Kengeri]]
| operator = [[Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd]] (BMRCL)
| depth =
| levels = 2
| tracks = 2
| parking =
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| opened = {{start date and age|2016|April|30|df=yes}}
| closed =
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| electrified = 750 [[Volt|V]] [[Direct current|DC]] [[third rail]]
| ADA = Yes {{access icon}}
| code = CBPK
| owned = [[Namma Metro]]
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| services = {{s-rail|title=Namma Metro}}
{{s-line|system=Namma Metro|line=Purple |previous=Mahatma Gandhi Road |next=Vidhana Soudha }}
| map_type = India Bangalore#Karnataka#India
| map_caption = Location in Bangalore##Location in Karnataka##Location in India
| map_dot_label = Cubbon Park
| map_size = 300
| route_map = {{BMR Purple Line}}
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'''Cubbon Park''' is a station on the [[Purple Line (Namma Metro)|Purple Line]] of the [[Namma Metro]] in [[Bangalore]], India. It was opened to the public on 30 April 2016. The station is located a few metres away from one of the entrances to [[Cubbon Park]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Curious commuters flock to metro for a ‘test’ ride|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/curious-commuters-flock-to-metro-for-a-test-ride-in-bengaluru/article8541894.ece|website=The Hindu|accessdate=1 May 2016|date=1 May 2016}}</ref>

==History==
The [[Cubbon]] Park metro station, like all other underground stations on the Purple Line, was built using the [[cut-and-cover]] method.<ref>{{cite web|title=Conducted 10,000 blasts to cut hard rocks: BMRCL|url=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/542956/conducted-10000-blasts-cut-hard.html|website=Deccan Herald|accessdate=26 April 2016}}</ref>

There was a proposal to build a 35 km line known as [[Bangalore High-Speed Rail Link]], from Cubbon Road to the [[Bengaluru International Airport]] in Devanahalli, according to BMRCL sources.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120709134437/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-10-21/bangalore/30306250_1_rail-link-airport-link-airport-line Metro will have high-speed link to BIA - Times Of India]</ref> This proposal was later shelved.

===Art===
Cubbon Park permits artists and students to showcase their work at the station under a project called "Art in Transit". An art installation by Prathmi Mehta, a student of Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, features a board with the question, "What makes Bangalore?" in English and Kannada. The board instructs the viewer to pick up a thread from the tray next to board, and place it on one of 36 options on the board. The options available include Cubbon Park, Kesari bath, Copper Road, Russell Market, Lalbagh, Manyata Tech Park, Lumbini Gardens, Bull Temple, Indiranagar, Vidhana Soudha, Kengeri drain, Set Dosa, Namma Metro, Electronics City, Bisi bele bath, Bellandur Lake, Gulmohar tree, MG Road, Sankey Tank, and Ragi mudde. As of April 2017, the most popular choices were Electronics City, Bisi bele bath and Cubbon Park.<ref>{{cite web|title=To Bengalureans, the city is about Cubbon Park, IT & bisi bele bath|url=http://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/others/to-bengalureans-the-city-is-about-cubbon-park-it-bisi-bele-bath/articleshow/58117972.cms|website=Bangalore Mirror|accessdate=13 April 2017}}</ref>

==Station layout==
{|table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" width=50 valign=top|'''G'''
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" width=100 valign=top|Street level
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" width=390 valign=top|Exit/ Entrance
|-
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|'''M'''
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|Mezzanine
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|Fare control, station agent, Ticket/token, shops
|-
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" width=50 rowspan=3 valign=top|'''P'''
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px white;" width=100|'''Eastbound'''
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px white;" width=390|Platform 1 → Toward →[[Baiyappanahalli metro station|Baiyappanahalli]]
|-
|style="border-top:solid 2px black;border-right:solid 2px black;border-left:solid 2px black;border-bottom:solid 2px black;text-align:center;" colspan=2|[[Island platform]], doors will open on the right {{access icon}}
|-
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" width=100|'''South West bound'''
| style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" width="390" |Platform 2 Toward ← [[Kengeri metro station|Kengeri]]
|}

==See also==
*[[Bangalore]]
*[[Cubbon Park]]
*[[List of Namma Metro stations]]
*[[Transport in Karnataka]]
*[[List of metro systems]]
*[[Rapid transit in India|List of rapid transit systems in India]]
*[[Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation]]
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==References==
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==External links==
{{Wikivoyage|Bangalore}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170629131050/http://www.bmrc.co.in/English/index.html Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (Official site)]
* [http://www.urbanrail.net ''UrbanRail.Net''] – descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations.

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