Kolkata Metro Line 4

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 Dum Dum Airport with line 6 of the Kolkata metro. The future of the project beyond New Barrackpore is still in darkness due to land acquisition problem. After New Barrackpore Station , the metro route will pass through a land owned by a private company. When the project was sanctioned, then railway minister Mamata Banerjee vested this land for metro project but the company moved to High court against it making the future of the project beyond New Barrackpore in darkness. Till now no solution came. The construction company L&T was given the tender for construction of metro viaduts between New Barrackpore and Barasat but due to no hope of getting rid of land acquisition problem, they walked out from the construction.

Kolkata Metro Line 4

Noapara-Barasat metro
Overview
StatusOperational
OwnerMetro Railway, Kolkata
Locale Kolkata Metropolitan Area, India
TerminiNoapara (south)
Barasat (north)
Connecting lines Line 1   Line 6 
Stations10
Service
TypeRapid transit
SystemKolkata Metro
Operator(s)Metro Railway, Kolkata
Depot(s)Noapara Depot
Airport Depot
Technical
Line length16.876 kilometres (10.486 mi)[1]
Number of tracks2
Track gauge1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) Broad gauge
Electrification750 V DC[2] using third rail
Operating speed80 km/h (designed)

Stations

The stations of this Corridors are:

Line 4
No. Station Name Location Phase Opening Connections Layout Coordinates Notes
EnglishBengali
1Noaparaনোয়াপাড়াNoapara 110 July 2013
  •  Line 1  (operational)
    • 34C Bus Stand
    • Health Care More Bus Stop
    • Gharui Paschimpara Bus Stop
 Elevated
2Dum Dum Cantonment দমদম ক্যান্টনমেন্টDum Dum Cantonment Under Construction
3Jessore Road যশোর রোডNSCB International Airport (Gate No. 1)
  • H.M.V. Gate Bus Stop
    • Airport Gate No. 1 Bus Stop
 At gradePreviously suburban rail used to operate in this line
4Biman Bandar বিমান বন্দরNSCB International Airport
  •  Line 6  (under construction)
    • Airport AC Bus Stand
    • Airport Gate No. 1 Bus Stop
    • Airport Gate No. 2 Bus Stop
    • Airport Gate No. 2.5 Bus Stop
    • Airport Gate No. 3 Bus Stop
 Underground
5Birati বিরাটিBirati 2 Planned
  • Birati More Bus Stop
  • Gouripur Bus Stand
6Michael Nagar মাইকেল নগরMichael Nagar
  • Bankra Bus Stop
  • Bankra Madni Nagar Bus Stop
7New Barrackporeনিউ ব্যারাকপুরNew Barrackpore
  • B.T. College Bus Stand
  • Sukanta Nagar Bus Stop
8Madhyamgram মধ্যমগ্রামMadhyamgram3
Elevated
9Hridaypurহৃদয়পুরHridaypur Hridaypur
10BarasatবারাসাতBarasat

Progress of Dum Dum Cantonment metro station
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[3] 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 ₹1,615 crore (US$230 million) 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. [4]

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.

Line 4 has been divided into three phases now.

  • Phase 1: Noapara - NSCBI Airport (under construction)
  • Phase 2: NSCBI Airport - New Barrackpore (construction to begin soon, tender floated by RVNL to carry out construction work)
  • Phase 3: New Barrackpore - Barasat (future extension)

See also

References
  1. "New System Map of Kolkata Metro".
  3. Jul 23, Jayanta Gupta | TNN |; 2019; Ist, 13:04. "Kolkata: Metro to run below surface after airport | Kolkata News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 25 March 2020.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. "Metro to run below surface after airport". Times of India. 26 July 2019.


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