Kolkata Metro Line 4

Kolkata Metro Line 4 Noapara-Barasat metro
Overview
Status	Under construction
Owner	Metro Railway, Kolkata
Locale	Kolkata Metropolitan Area, India
Termini	Noapara (south) Barasat (north)
Connecting lines	Line 1   Line 6
Stations	10
Service
Type	Rapid transit
System	Kolkata Metro
Operator(s)	Metro Railway, Kolkata
Depot(s)	Noapara Depot Airport Depot
Technical
Line length	16.876 kilometres (10.486 mi)[1]
Number of tracks	2
Track gauge	5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge
Electrification	750 V DC[2] using third rail
Operating speed	80 km/h (designed)

The Line 4 or Noapara - Barasat Line of the Kolkata Metro in India is a 16.876 km (10.486 mi)^[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:

Line 4
No.	Station Name		Location	Phase	Opening	Connections	Layout	Coordinates	Notes
	English	Bengali
1	Noapara	নোয়াপাড়া	Noapara	1	10 July 2013	Line 1  (operational) 34C Bus Stand Health Care More Bus Stop Gharui Paschimpara Bus Stop	Elevated
2	Dum Dum Cantonment	দমদম ক্যান্টনমেন্ট	Dum Dum Cantonment		Under Construction	Dum Dum Cantonment 30D Bus Stand Dum Dum Cantonment 2 no Rail Gate Bus Stand
3	Jessore Road	যশোর রোড	NSCB International Airport (Gate No. 1)			H.M.V. Gate Bus Stop Airport Gate No. 1 Bus Stop	At grade		Previously suburban rail used to operate in this line
4	Biman Bandar	বিমান বন্দর	NSCB 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
5	Birati	বিরাটি	Birati	2	Planned	Birati More Bus Stop Gouripur Bus Stand
6	Michael Nagar	মাইকেল নগর	Michael Nagar			Bankra Bus Stop Bankra Madni Nagar Bus Stop
7	New Barrackpore	নিউ ব্যারাকপুর	New Barrackpore			B.T. College Bus Stand Sukanta Nagar Bus Stop
8	Madhyamgram	মধ্যমগ্রাম	Madhyamgram	3		Madhyamgram Kalibari (Madhyamgram) Bus Stop
9	Hridaypur	হৃদয়পুর	Hridaypur			Hridaypur
10	Barasat	বারাসাত	Barasat			Barasat Junction Barasat Champadali Bus Terminal

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$210 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.

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.^[5]

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

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