Karkarduma metro station
 Karkarduma कड़कड़ डूमा | |||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 28°38′55″N 77°18′17″E / 28.648641°N 77.304708°E | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||
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| Opened | January 6, 2010 | ||||||||||
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The Karkarduma or Karkardooma (Hindi: कड़कड़ डूमा) Metro Station is an elevated station located on the Blue Line of the Delhi Metro and opened on January 6, 2010.[1][2] Though the existing station is at a height of 14.5 m, the interchange Metro station at Karkardooma, part of the Mukundpur-Shiv Vihar corridor in Phase III of Delhi Metro, is the highest station of Delhi Metro network with a platform height of 22m from the ground level.[3][4]
The station is named after the Karkardooma locatlity in East Delhi, around its historic twin village named Karkari.[5] The area also has the district court of Delhi, the Karkardooma District Court in Karkardooma Courts Complex built in 1997-98.[6]
References
- ↑ "Station Information". Delhi Metro. Retrieved September 23, 2013.
- ↑ "Anand Vihar Metro line flagged off". Hindustan Times. Retrieved Sep 23, 2013.
- ↑ "60 feet above ground, Delhi Metro to run over flyover". Thaindian.com. Retrieved July 24, 2008.
- ↑ "At Karkardooma, Metro's tall feat". The Times of India. Jul 23, 2012. Retrieved 2013-09-23.
- ↑ Nivedita Khandekar (August 3, 2013). "The ‘evolution’ of the twin villages". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 2013-09-23.
- ↑ "Karkardooma Courts Complex". Karkardooma Courts Complex website. Retrieved 2013-09-23.