Key facts
- Owner
- Indian Railways
- Area served
- Kolkata metropolitan area
- Locale
- Kolkata , West Bengal , India
- Transit type
- Rapid transit
- Number of lines
- Operational: 5 Proposed/Approved: 1
- Line number
- Blue Line Green Line Purple Line Yellow Line Pink Line Orange Line
- Number of stations
- Operational : 58 Under construction: 22 Proposed/Approved : 44 Total : 124
- Daily ridership
- 597,260 (2024–25)
- Annual ridership
- 218,100,000 (218.1 million, 2024–25)
- Website
- mtp.indianrailways.gov.in kmrc.in
- Began operation
- 24 October 1984 ; 41 years ago ( 1984-10-24 ) as Metropolitan Transit Project 29 December 2010 ; 15 years ago ( 2010-12-29 ) as a railway zone under Indian Railways
- Operator s
- Metro Railway, Kolkata
- Infrastructure manager
- Indian Railways
- Character
- Elevated, At-grade, Underground
- Train length
- 6–8 coaches
- Headway
- 6–25 minutes
- System length
- 73.42 km (45.62 mi) (operational) 138.82 km (86.26 mi) (Total proposed)
- Track gauge
- 1,676 mm ( 5 ft 6 in ) broad gauge 1,435 mm ( 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ) standard gauge
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- rapid transit
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Kolkata Metropolitan Area
- Official website
- www.kmrc.in
- Image
- Kolkata Metro.jpg
- Length
- 38.56
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- date of official opening
- 1984-10-24
- native label
- কলকাতা মেট্রো
- Commons category
- Kolkata Metro
- topic's main category
- Category:Kolkata Metro
- track gauge
- 1676 mm track gauge
- inception
- 1984-01-01
- patronage
- 204200000
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Anukul Thakur
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kolkata Metro” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.