Mahanayak Uttam Kumar metro station
![]() ![]() Mahanayak Uttam Kumar metro station | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Deshapran Sashmal Rd, Tollygunge Kolkata, West Bengal 700040 India | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 22°29′40″N 88°20′43″E / 22.49445°N 88.34515°E | ||||||||||
| System | Kolkata Metro | ||||||||||
| Operator | Metro Railway, Kolkata | ||||||||||
| Lines | Blue Line Purple Line | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 (2 Side platforms) | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||
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| Construction | |||||||||||
Structure type | At Grade, Double track | ||||||||||
| Parking | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Station code | KMUK | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 29 April 1986 | ||||||||||
| Former names | Tollygunge | ||||||||||
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Mahanayak Uttam Kumar (formerly known as Tollygunge) is an at-grade level metro station on the North-South corridor of the Blue Line of Kolkata Metro in Tollygunge, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.[1][2] The station is named after Uttam Kumar, one of the most famous names of Indian Bengali Cinema. It will be a third interchange metro station between Blue Line and Purple Line in the future after Park Street and Esplanade metro stations.
The Tollygunge Golf Club is on the west side of the station, the Royal Calcutta Golf Club lies less than a kilometre to the east and ITC Sangeet Research Academy is a short distance south along the Deshapran Sashmal Road at Netaji Subash Chandra Bose Road.
Station layout
| G | Street Level | Exit/ Entrance, Fare control, station agent, Ticket/token, shops |
| Side platform, Doors will open on the left | ||
| Platform 2 | Train towards Shahid Khudiram (Netaji) → | |
| Platform 1 | ← Train towards Dakshineswar (Rabindra Sarobar) | |
| Island platform, P1 Doors will open on the left, P-1A Doors will open on the right | ||
| Platform 1A | Train towards Shahid Khudiram (Netaji) → | |
| UG | Underground Crossover | |
Connections
Bus
Bus route number 12C/1B, 40A, 40B, 41, 41B, 47/1, 80A, 205, 205A, 208, 228, SD5, S112 (Mini), S113 (Mini), S114 (Mini), S117 (Mini), S188 (Mini), C8, C14/1, M7B, M16, M16A, M18, S2, S4C, S6A, S7, S17A, S31, AC4B, AC6, AC16, AC31, AC47, V1, V9, ST6 etc. serve the station.[3][4]
Tram
Tram route number 24/29 serves the station.
See also

References
- ↑ "Metro Railway Kolkata / Indian Railways Portal". mtp.indianrailways.gov.in. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
- ↑ "New System Map of Kolkata Metro".
- ↑ "Bus route | the Calcutta Tramways Company [1978] Ltd". Archived from the original on 18 August 2018. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
- ↑ "Bus Services".
External links
Kolkata/South travel guide from Wikivoyage
Kolkata/Southern fringes travel guide from Wikivoyage- Old official website for Blue Line
- UrbanRail.Net – descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations.
- "Mahanayak Uttam Kumar metro station" (Map). Google Maps.

