Owned by Government of India Elevation 897 m Owner Government of India Tracks 16 | Phone 097381 35614 Platforms in use 10 | |
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Other names Bangalore City railway station Connections Kempegowda Bus StationNamma Metro Purple Line Address M.G. Railway Colony, Majestic, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560023 | ||
Bangalore City railway station, officially known as Krantivira Sangolli Rayanna railway station, is the main railway station serving the city of Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
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Bangalore city railway station
Location
It is located across the Kempegowda Bus Station. The station has 10 platforms and two entrances.
Platforms
Platforms 1 to 7 connect to the Chennai and Salem railway lines. On platforms 8 to 10, service trains arrive via Yeshwantpur from Hubballi-Dharwad. Platforms 1 to 4 terminate at Bangalore. On platforms 5 to 10, service trains depart towards Mysuru. There are railway lines between Platforms 4 and 5 that are used as the railway yard. There are 5 railway lines passing from Bangalore City railway station - to Hyderabad via Guntakal, Chennai via Krishnarajapuram, Salem via Hosur, Mysuru, Hubballi-Dharwad via Tumkur, Birur. The Bangalore-Chennai railway line via Bangalore Cantonment, Bangarpet, is fully electrified and open for traffic. The Bangalore- Mysore line is yet to be electrified since the doubling work at SriRanga Pattana is going on.
Trains
The station handles 88 trains a day, including 63 express trains, and is used by 220,000 commuters every day.
Connections
The railway station is served by City Railway Station metro station on the Namma Metro's Purple Line, which opened on 30 April 2016. Later that year, the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) decided to construct a foot-over-bridge from the metro station until the boundary of the railway station, while the South Western Railway, would complete the rest of the work. The foot-over-bridge is expected to open in June 2017.
The railway station is also served by Kempegowda Bus Station.