The Line 4 or Noapara - Barasat Line of the Kolkata Metro is an 16.876 km[1] long metro route from Noapara to Barasat in North 24 Parganas, which is under construction. It is being built by RVNL. It will run mostly at elevated viaducts but will descend underground after Jessore Road Station and will again ascend above after New Barrackpore Station. It will have an interchange station at the NSCBI Airport with Kolkata Metro Line 6.
Stations
The stations of this Corridors are:
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| No. | Station Name | Location | Phase | Opening | Connections | Layout | Coordinates | Notes | |
| English | Bengali | ||||||||
| 1 | Noapara | নোয়াপাড়া | Noapara | 1 | 10 July 2013 | Template:Ubl | Elevated | ||
| 2 | Dum Dum Cantonment | দমদম ক্যান্টনমেন্ট | Template:Rws | Under Construction | Template:Ubl | ||||
| 3 | Jessore Road | যশোর রোড | NSCB International Airport (Gate No. 1) | Template:Ubl | At grade | Previously suburban rail used to operate in this line | |||
| 4 | Biman Bandar | বিমান বন্দর | NSCB International Airport | Template:Ubl | Underground | ||||
| 5 | Birati | বিরাটি | Birati | 2 | Planned | Template:Ubl | |||
| 6 | Michael Nagar | মাইকেল নগর | Michael Nagar | Template:Ubl | |||||
| 7 | New Barrackpore | নিউ ব্যারাকপুর | New Barrackpore | Template:Ubl | |||||
| 8 | Madhyamgram | মধ্যমগ্রাম | Madhyamgram | 3 | Template:Ubl | ||||
| 9 | Hridaypur | হৃদয়পুর | Hridaypur | Template:Rint Template:Rws | |||||
| 10 | Barasat | বারাসাত | Barasat | Template:Ubl | |||||
Progress of Dum Dum Cantonment metro station
An amount of Rs 227 crore contract to build this station along with a mostly at-grade 2.16 km section from the Bagjola Canal to the existing ramp of the Airport Circular Railway track was awarded to Senbo Engineering Limited all the way back in June 2011. Since then, the station’s civil structure has been built, but work for the at-grade track section could not be started due to land acquisition issues along the line’s proposed alignment. But the rehabilitation work has completed, and the work is going smoothly. Recently girders were placed over Eastern Railway tracks.
Project Development
The project will be completed in three phases. The first phase of work from Noapara to Biman Bandar is under progress. In the second phase work from Biman Bandar to New Barrackpore will be done and in the last phase from New Barrackpore to Barasat work will be done. But the development work from New Barackpore to Barasat got struck for the last eight years since it was sanctioned because of encroachments[2] and the AAI objected the elevated stretches from New Barrackpore to Barasat. Later, after objections from AAI, a decision was taken to convert this into an underground stretch. On 29 June, 2019 sanction for material modification for underground construction at an additional cost of Template:INRConvert was sent to Railway Board by Metro. For this underground tunneling AAI has agreed to shift their fuel tanks, buildings and cables and the project is expected to be started from 2020. [3]
Construction of an underground integrated station for Line 6 and Line 4 has begun at NSCBI Airport land just 150 metre away from the terminal building.
The development of New Barrackpore to Barasat was supposed to go elevated to cut down the expenses, but the stretch was in doubt due to huge encroachment problem. But in February 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave his nod to construct this stretch underground, giving respite to thousands of refugee families who were supposed to be evicted for the development of the elevated stretch.[4]
Line 4 has been divided into three phases now.
- Phase 1: Noapara - Biman Bandar(under construction)
- Phase 2: Biman Bandar - New Barrackpore (construction to begin soon, tender floated by RVNL to carry out construction work)
- Phase 3: New Barrackpore - Barasat (future extension)
See also
- List of Kolkata metro stations
- Kolkata Metro Rolling Stock
- List of rapid transit systems
- Trams in Kolkata
- Kolkata Lightrail
- Kolkata Monorail
- Kolkata Suburban Railway
References
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedmtp - ↑ Kolkata: Metro to run below surface after airport | Kolkata News - Times of India, Jul 23, Jayanta Gupta | TNN |. The Times of India. Retrieved 2020-03-25.
- ↑ Metro to run below surface after airport(26 July 2019).
- ↑ PM nod for underground Metro averts eviction. www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
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