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.[2] 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.[3]
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 118,400 square feet (11,000 m2)[4] and the only 3 line interchange metro station in India.[5] 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.
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- ^ "Station Information". Archived from the original on 19 June 2010. Retrieved 26 June 2010.
- ^ Kashmere Gate Delhi Metro Station
- ^ "Delhi: Kashmere Gate Metro station to be double the size of Rajiv Chowk". 7 May 2017.
- ^ "Heritage Line takes some pressure off Rajiv Chowk". The Hindu. 30 May 2017.