Kashmere Gate | |
| Style: | Delhi Metro |
| Address: | Lothian Rd, Inter State Bus Terminal (ISBT), Kashmere Gate, Central Delhi, Delhi - 110006 |
| Owned: | Delhi Metro |
| Platforms: | Island platform (Yellow Line) Platform-1 → Platform-2 → Side platform (Red Line) Island platform (Violet Line) |
| Tracks: | 6 |
| Structure: | Elevated (Red Line) Underground (Yellow Line) Underground (Violet Line) |
| Levels: | 3 |
| Parking: | Available |
| Accessible: | Yes |
| Opened: | 25 December 2002 (Red Line) 20 December 2004 (Yellow Line) 28 May 2017 (Violet Line) |
| Electrified: | through overhead catenary |
| Mpassengers: | |
| Map State: | collapsed |
| Mapframe: | yes |
| Mapframe-Marker: | rail |
| Mapframe-Zoom: | 14 |
Kashmere Gate, also known as Kashmiri Gate, is an important metro station on Delhi Metro in Delhi, which is elevated for the Red Line and underground for both the Yellow Line and Violet Line. It is a transfer station between the Red Line on the highest upper level, the Yellow Line on the lowest underground level and Violet Line on the parallel underground level.[1] It is the busiest metro station in India. It was named on 25 December 2002. During peak hours, it serves as an alternate Northern Terminus for the yellow line along with Vishwa Vidyalaya.[2]
The Kashmere Gate Metro station services the historic Kashmiri Gate area of Delhi, and is currently the largest metro station within the Delhi metro with area of about [3] and the only 3 line interchange metro station in India.[4] The giant station has over 6 floors. It has facilities like restaurants, fast food centres, McDonald's, Burger King, water vending machines, 3 toilet complexes, over 35 escalators, Ticket vending machines etc.
Under the Delhi Metro Phase III plan, the Violet Line was extended from its current terminus to meet the Yellow and Red Lines at Kashmere Gate station. This provided an alternative route between Central Secretariat and Kashmere Gate, alleviating crowds on the heavily used Yellow Line.It was inaugurated on 28 May 2017 by the then Union minister Sh. Venkaiah Naidu.[5]
Station layout
| P | Side platform | Doors will open on the left | |||
| Platform 3 Westbound | Towards ← Next Station: | ||||
| Side platform | Doors will open on the left | ||||
| Platform 4 Eastbound | Towards → Next Station: | ||||
| valign=top | C | valign=top | Concourse | valign=top | Fare control, station agent, token vending and automatic vending machines, crossover |
| G | Street Level | Gates |
| G | Street Level | Gates |
| C | Concourse | Fare control, station agent, token vending and automatic vending machines, crossover |
| P | Platform 1 Southbound | Towards → Next Station: |
| Island platform | Doors will open on the right | |
| Platform 2 Northbound | Towards ← Next Station: |
| G | Street Level | Gates |
| C | Concourse | Fare control, station agent, token vending and automatic vending machines, crossover |
| P | Platform 5 Southbound | Towards ← Next Station: |
| Island platform | Doors will open on the right | |
| Platform 6 Northbound | Towards → Train Terminates Here |
Bus services between Delhi and the neighboring states and UTs of Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand operate from here.[7]
The station is located at a distance of around 1.5km (00.9miles) from the Old Delhi railway station.