Blue Line (Delhi Metro)

Blue Line (Line 3 , Line 4)
Fleets of Blue line manufactured by Mitsubishi-ROTEM.
Overview
Status	Operational
Termini	Noida Electronic City Dwarka Sector 21
Stations	Main Line: 50 Branch: 7
Service
Type	Rapid transit
System	Delhi Metro
Operator(s)	Delhi Metro Rail Corporation
History
Opened	Main Line: 31 December 2005, Branch: 6 January 2010
Technical
Line length	Main Line: 56.61 km (35.18 mi), Branch: 8.74 km (5.43 mi)
Character	At-grade, Underground, and Elevated
Track gauge	1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) Indian gauge
Electrification	25 kV, 50 Hz AC Overhead catenary
Route map Sahibabad Vasundhara Sector 5 Shakti Khand DPS Indirapuram Vaibhav Khand Noida Electronic City Noida Sector 62 Noida Sector 59 Noida Sector 61 Noida Sector 52 Aqua Line Noida Sector 34 Noida City Centre Golf Course Botanical Garden Magenta Line Noida Sector 18 Vaishali Noida Sector 16 Kaushambi Noida Sector 15 Uttar Pradesh Delhi border Pink Line Anand Vihar New Ashok Nagar Pink Line Karkarduma Mayur Vihar Extension Preet Vihar Mayur Vihar-I Pink Line Nirman Vihar Nizamuddin Bridge over National Highway 24 Laxmi Nagar Akshardham Yamuna Bank Yamuna River Indraprastha Green Line Ring Road Indian Railways Supreme Court Tilak Marg/ITO Mandi House Violet Line Barakhamba Road Rajiv Chowk Yellow Line Ramakrishna Ashram Marg Magenta Line Jhandewalan Ridge Road Karol Bagh Rajendra Place Patel Nagar Shadipur Indian Railways Kirti Nagar Green Line Satguru Ram Singh Marg Moti Nagar Ramesh Nagar Ring Road Rajouri Garden Pink Line Tagore Garden Subhash Nagar Tilak Nagar Janakpuri East Outer Ring Road Janakpuri West Magenta Line Uttam Nagar East Uttam Nagar West Nawada Dwarka Mor Dwarka Grey Line Dwarka Sector 14 Dwarka Sector 13 Dwarka Sector 12 Dwarka Sector 11 Dwarka Sector 10 Dwarka Sector 9 Dwarka Sector 8 Dwarka Sector 21 Airport Express

Fleets of Blue Line manufuctured by Bombardier.

The Blue Line (Line 3 & Line 4) of the Delhi Metro system in Delhi consists of 50 metro stations from Dwarka Sector 21 to Noida Electronic City, (Line 3), with a length of 56.61 kilometres (35.18 miles) and a branch line consisting of 8 stations from Vaishali to Yamuna Bank, (Line 4), with a length of 8.74 kilometres (5.43 miles).

History

The Dwarka-Barakhamba Road section of the line was inaugurated by the then Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh on 31 December 2005 and opened to the public on 31 December 2005. It is the longest line(including branch line) currently running on the Delhi Metro network.

Blue Line Stations
Extension date	Termini		Length	Stations
31 December 2005	Dwarka	Barakhamba Road	22.9 km (14.2 mi)	22
1 April 2006		Dwarka Sector 9	6.5 km (4.0 mi)	6
11 November 2006	Barakhamba Road	Indraprastha	2.8 km (1.7 mi)	3
12 November 2009	Yamuna Bank	Noida City Centre	13.1 km (8.1 mi)	10
14 July 2011		Vaishali	8.74 km (5.43 mi)	8
30 October 2010	Dwarka Sector 9	Dwarka Sector 21	2.76 km (1.71 mi)	2
9 March 2019	Noida City Centre	Noida Electronic City	6.67 km (4.14 mi)	6
Total	Noida Electronic City/Vaishali	Dwarka Sector 21	65.35 km (40.61 mi)	57

Stations

Main article: List of Delhi metro stations

Karkardooma station on Anand Vihar branch is the highest station of Delhi metro with a platform height of 19 metres (62 feet 4 inches). Rajouri Garden station on the main line is the second highest station with a height of 17 metres (55 feet 9 inches).

Main Line

Delhi Metro currently has parking facilities at 35 metro stations of the Blue line.

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#	Station Name		Phase	Opening	Interchange Connenction	Station Layout	Platform Level Type	Depot Connection	Depot Layout
	English	Hindi
1	Mohan Nagar	मोहन नगर	4	2025	Red Line	Elevated	Side	None	None
2	Sahibabad	साहिबाबाद			Blue Line
3	Vasundhra Sector 5	वसुंधरा सेक्टर 5			None
4	Kinauni Village	किनौनी गांव
5	Indirapuram	इंदिरापुरम
6	Vaibhav Khand	वैभव खंड
1	Noida Electronic City	नोएडा इलैक्ट्रौनिक सिटी	3	9 March 2019	None	Elevated	Side	Noida Electronic City Depot	Elevated
2	Noida Sector 62	नोएडा सेक्टर 62			None			None	None
3	Noida Sector 59	नोएडा सेक्टर 59
4	Noida Sector 61	नोएडा सेक्टर 61
5	Noida Sector 52	नोएडा सेक्टर 52			Aqua Line
6	Noida Sector 34	नोएडा सेक्टर 34			None
7	Noida City Centre	नोएडा सिटी सेंटर	2	12 November 2009	None	Elevated	Side	None	None
8	Golf Course	गोल्फ कोर्स
9	Botanical Garden	बॉटानिकल गार्डन			Magenta Line
10	Noida Sector 18	नोएडा सेक्टर १८			None
11	Noida Sector 16	नोएडा सेक्टर १६
12	Noida Sector 15	नोएडा सेक्टर १५
13	New Ashok Nagar	नया अशोक नगर
14	Mayur Vihar Extension	मयूर विहार विस्तार					Island
15	Mayur Vihar – I	मयूर विहार-१			Pink Line
16	Akshardham	अक्षरधाम			None		Side
17	Yamuna Bank	यमुना बैंक		10 May 2009	Blue Line	At Grade	Side	Yamuna Bank Depot	At Grade
18	Indraprastha	इंद्रप्रस्थ	1	11 November 2006	None	Elevated	Side	None	None
19	Pragati Maidan	प्रगति मैदान
20	Mandi House	मंडी हाउस			Violet Line	Underground
21	Barakhambha Road	बाराखम्भा मार्ग		31 December 2005	None
22	Rajiv Chowk	राजीव चौक			Yellow Line
23	Ramakrishna Ashram Marg	रामकृष्ण आश्रम मार्ग			None	Elevated	Side	None	None
24	Jhandewalan	झंडेवालान
25	Karol Bagh	क़रोल बाग़
26	Rajendra Place	राजेंद्र प्लेस
27	Patel Nagar	पटेल नगर
28	Shadipur	शादीपुर
29	Kirti Nagar	कीर्ति नगर			Green Line
30	Moti Nagar	मोती नगर			None
31	Ramesh Nagar	रमेश नगर
32	Rajouri Garden	राजौरी गार्डन			Pink Line
33	Tagore Garden	टैगोर गार्डन			None
34	Arnold Subhash Nagar	अर्नोल्ड सुभाष नगर
35	Tilak Nagar	तिलक नगर
36	Janakpuri East	जनकपुरी पूर्व
37	Janakpuri West	जनकपुरी पश्चिम			Magenta Line
38	Uttam Nagar East	उत्तम नगर पूर्व			None
39	Uttam Nagar West	उत्तम नगर पश्चिम
40	Nawada	नवादा
41	Dwarka Mor	द्वारका मोड़
42	Dwarka	द्वारका			Grey Line	Side	Dwarka - Najafgarh Depot	At Grade
43	Dwarka Sector 14	द्वारका सैक्टर १४	2	1 April 2006	None	Elevated	Side	None	None
44	Dwarka Sector 13	द्वारका सैक्टर १३
45	Dwarka Sector 12	द्वारका सैक्टर १२
46	Dwarka Sector 11	द्वारका सैक्टर ११
47	Dwarka Sector 10	द्वारका सैक्टर १०
48	Dwarka Sector 9	द्वारका सैक्टर ९
49	Dwarka Sector 8	द्वारका सैक्टर ८		30 October 2010	None
50	Dwarka Sector 21	द्वारका सैक्टर २१			Orange Line Yellow Line	Underground

Branch Line

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#	Station Name		Phase	Opening	Interchange Connenction	Station Layout	Platform Level Type	Depot Connection	Depot Layout
	English	Hindi
1	Yamuna Bank†	यमुना बैंक	2	10 May 2009	Blue Line	At Grade	Island	Yamuna Bank Depot	At Grade
2	Laxmi Nagar	लक्ष्मी नगर		6 January 2010	None	Elevated	Side	None	None
3	Nirman Vihar	निर्माण विहार
4	Preet Vihar	प्रीत विहार
5	Karkarduma	कड़कड़ डूमा			Pink Line
6	Anand Vihar	आनंद विहार			Pink Line
7	Kaushambi	कौशाम्बी		14 July 2011	None
8	Vaishali	वैशाली
9	Vaishali Extension	वैशाली एक्सटेंशन	4	2025	None	Elevated	Side	None	None
10	Vasundhra Sector 14	वसुंधरा सेक्टर 14
11	Sahibabad	साहिबाबाद			Blue Line
12	Mohan Nagar	मोहन नगर			Red Line

Train Info

#	Blue Line
1	Rakes	Mitsubishi	Hyundai Rotem	BEML	Bombardier
2	Train Length	8
3	Train Gauge	1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) Indian gauge
4	Electrification	25 kV, 50 Hz AC through overhead catenary OHE
5	Train's Maximum Speed	100 Km/hr
6	Train Operation	Delhi Metro

Extensions

Vaishali extension

A small extension of length 2.57 kilometres (1.60 miles) has been constructed and opened on 14 July 2011 connecting Anand Vihar station of the Blue Line branch with Vaishali Metro station in Ghaziabad, a satellite city near Delhi.

Najafgarh extension (Line 09) Grey Line (Dwarka - Dhansa Bus Stand)

A branch line from Dwarka station to Najafgarh is being constructed under Phase III and is scheduled to be operational by Sep-2019. The extension will see 3 new stations being added to the blue line. Construction work on this extension started in September 2013.

This line will now be extended to Dhansa Bus Stand, which would be the last project of DMRC's phase III. This extension of underground 1.18 km shall be completed by Dec-2020.

Noida extension

In April 2014 the Delhi Government approved the extension of line eastwards from Noida City Centre to Noida Electronic City (Sector-62). The extended line would have 6 new stations in a distance of 6.75 kilometres (4.19 miles). Later, the Government approved an additional line starting from Noida sector 51 to Greater Noida.

Vaishali and Noida Electronic City extension

A small extension is being made from Vaishali to Mohan Nagar of Redline and further extension of the blue line from Noida Electronic city to Sahibabad is being planned. Main Blue line will join branch blue line at Sahibabad.

Dwarka Sector 21 to Farukh nagar (Haryana) extension

Not yet passed by DMRC for phase V. This line is not yet approved by government.

See also

• List of Delhi Metro stations
• Transport in Delhi
• Delhi Metro Rail Corporation
• Delhi Suburban Railway
• Delhi Transport Corporation
• National Capital Region (India)

External links

• Official Official website