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{{Short description|Railway Station in Maharashtra, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2016}}
{{unreliable sources|date=November 2011}}
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'''Grant Road''' ([[Help:IPA/English|/graːnt/]]; station code: '''GTR'''), named after [[Robert Grant (MP)|Sir Robert Grant]], the [[Governor of Bombay]] between 1835 and 1839, is a [[railway station]] in South-Central Mumbai, and is the former terminus of the erstwhile Bombay Baroda and Central India Railway.<ref>[[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway]]</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-hist.html |title = [IRFCA] Indian Railways FAQ: IR History: Early Days - 1}}</ref> The terminus was established in 1859 to connect to Surat, over the years the terminus facilities were moved to Bombay Central and facilities at Grant road were converted to cargo operations. Post independence the road which lends its name to the area and the station has been changed to Maulana Shaukatali Road<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~poyntz/India/maps.html |title = Historical Maps of India}}</ref>

==Overview==

Towards the west of the Grant Road station is Nana Chowk (named after [[Jaganath Shunkerseth]]) and residential localities of Gamdevi, New Chikhal Wadi, Juni (Old) Chikhal Wadi, Bhaji Gully (the local vegetable market). To the east of Grant Road station is the retail electronic market of Bombay along [[Lamington Road (Mumbai)|Lamington Road]]. Grant Road station also connects famous Radha Gopinath Temple [ISKCON] at Chowpatty. Novelty cinema is at the junction of Grant Road with Lamington Road.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.mumbai77.com/pages/grant-road/ |title = Grant Road Station Attractions - Mumbai|date = 6 September 2013}}</ref>

Famous places accessible to the West are [[Gowalia Tank]] (also known as August Kranti Maidan), Mani Bhavan at Gamdevi, Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, Bhavan's College, Wilson College, Girgaum Chowpatty and Walkeshwar.
Famous places accessible from the East are Gol Deol off Duncan Road, Chor Bazaar on Mutton Street, Hurkisondas Hospital,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hnhospital.com/aboutus.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-07-26 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100712142206/http://www.hnhospital.com/aboutus.html |archivedate=12 July 2010 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> Prathana Samaj, Badr Baug.

For information on area, see [[Grant Road]]

==Accessibility==

Bus routes connecting Grant Road Station (West) include bus number 155. Bus number 155 is a ring route via [[Pedder Road]].

== See also ==
* [[Gowalia Tank]]

== References ==
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{{Mumbai - Suburban Railway, Western}}

[[Category:Railway stations in Mumbai City district]]
[[Category:Mumbai Suburban Railway stations]]
[[Category:Mumbai WR railway division]]
[[Category:Railway stations opened in 1859]]

Grant Road railway station - Revision history

>SomePacifisticGuy at 15:05, 10 September 2021