Lajpat Nagar metro station
Lajpat Nagar is an interchange station between Violet Line and Pink Line of the Delhi Metro in Delhi. It is located between Jangpura and Moolchand on the Violet Line in Lajpat Nagar. The station was opened with the first section of the Violet Line on 3 October 2010, in time for the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony on the same day.[1] It became an interchange station with the opening of the Pink Line on 6 August 2018. The station on the Pink Line is underground, whereas the Violet line station is elevated. However, both the lines are seamlessly connected, without the commuters having to exit the ticketed area to interchange from one line to another.
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Location | Lala Lajpat Rai Marg, New Delhi 110024, India | |||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 28.570607°N 77.236474°E | |||||||||||||||
Owned by | Delhi Metro | |||||||||||||||
Operated by | Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) | |||||||||||||||
Line(s) | Violet Line Pink Line | |||||||||||||||
Platforms | Side platform Platform-1 → Escorts Mujesar Platform-2 →Kashmere Gate via Lal Qila Platform-3 → Shiv Vihar Platform-4 → Majlis Park | |||||||||||||||
Tracks | 4 | |||||||||||||||
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Structure type | Elevated, Underground | |||||||||||||||
Platform levels | 2 | |||||||||||||||
Parking | ![]() | |||||||||||||||
Disabled access | Yes ![]() | |||||||||||||||
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Station code | LJPN | |||||||||||||||
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Opened | Violet Line- October 3, 2010 Pink Line- August 6, 2018 | |||||||||||||||
Electrified | 25 kV 50 Hz AC through overhead catenary | |||||||||||||||
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![]() ![]() Lajpat Nagar metro station Location in Delhi |
Lajpat Nagar Market is one of the famous shopping market in Delhi which is famous for women clothes, artificial jewelry, Footwear and Home Decor items. This market is just 200-300 meter away from Lajpat Nagar Metro Station. Timings of this market is 11:00 AM to 08:00 PM
The station
Station layout
Elevated Violet Line
G | Street Level | Exit/Entrance |
L1 | Mezzanine | Fare control, station agent, Metro Card vending machines, crossover |
L2 | Side platform No- 1, doors will open on the left ![]() | |
Southbound | Towards →Escorts Mujesar | |
Northbound | →Towards ←Kashmere Gate | |
Side platform No- 2, doors will open on the left ![]() | ||
L2 | ||
Station layout
Underground Pink Line
G | Street Level | Exit/ Entrance |
M | Mezzanine | Fare control, station agent, Ticket/token, shops |
P | Southbound | Platform 3 → Shiv Vihar |
Island platform, doors will open on the right ![]() | ||
Northbound | Platform 4 Toward ← Majlis Park |
Facilities
List of available ATM at Lajpat Nagar metro station are HDFC Bank, SBI, RBL Bank.[2]
Entry/Exit
Gate Number 1 - Metro Parking
Gate Number 2 - 3Cs Cinema
Gate Number 3 - Defence Colony
Nearby
Defence Colony, Acharya Munir Ashram, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur College of Nursing, Haldiram, The Japan Foundation, Guru Nanak Market, Ziyyara Edutech Private Limited
Connections
Bus
Delhi Transport Corporation bus routes number 374, 404, 419, 419LSTL, 423, 425, 425CL, 425STL, 445, 445A, 445STL, 449CL, 490, 521, 727 serves the station.[3]
Rail
Lajpat Nagar railway station of Delhi Suburban Railway is situated at 1.5 km on Sardar Inderjit Singh Bhatia Rd.
See also
- Delhi
- List of Delhi Metro stations
- Transport in Delhi
- Delhi Monorail
- South Delhi
- New Delhi
- National Capital Region (India)
- List of rapid transit systems
- List of metro systems
References
- "Central Secretariat – Sarita Vihar Corridor Opens for Commuter Operations Tomorrow" (Press release). Delhi Metro.
- http://www.delhimetrorail.com/ATM_details.aspx
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 25 October 2018. Retrieved 15 February 2018.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Delhi Metro. |
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Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Delhi. |
- Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (Official site)
- Delhi Metro Annual Reports
- "Station Information". Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (DMRC). Archived from the original on 19 June 2010.
- UrbanRail.Net – Descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations.
- Google. "Lajpat Nagar metro station" (Map). Google Maps. Google.