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{{Short description|Defunct railway station in Maharashtra, India}}
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{{Infobox Station
| name = Colaba
| type = '''[[Mumbai Suburban Railway]]''' '''station'''
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| image_caption = Colaba Station
| style = Mumbai Suburban Railway
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| coordinates = {{Coord|18|55|15|N|72|49|40|E|type:railwaystation_region:IN|display=inline}}
| line = [[Western Line (Mumbai Suburban Railway)|Western Line]]
| other =
| structure = Standard on-ground station
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| opened = 1872{{cn|date=February 2019}}
| closed = 1930{{cn|date=February 2019}}
| rebuilt =
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| owned = [[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway]]
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| services = No service demolished
| map_type = India#Maharashtra#Mumbai
| map_dot_label = Colaba
}}

'''Colaba Railway Station''' was a railway station on the [[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway]] (BB&CI) located in [[Colaba]] in then South Bombay (now [[South Mumbai]].)

The original BBCI terminus was at [[Grant Road railway station|Grant Road]]. This was subsequently extended to [[Churchgate railway station|Churchgate]] in 1870 and to Colaba, at the southern tip of the island, in 1873. However, by the 1920s, the Government of Bombay ordered the Railway to hand over the section between Churchgate and Colaba to facilitate the development of Backbay Reclamation project, now [[Nariman Point]]. After the new [[Mumbai Central railway station|Bombay Central]] station was opened in 1930, the line between Churchgate and Colaba was closed and removed. <ref>{{cite web |title=Once upon a time, WR was mocked as a ‘waste of money’|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/once-upon-a-time-wr-was-mocked-as-a-waste-of-money/|work= [[The Indian Express]]|access-date= 8 November 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Amazing facts about Mumbai |url=https://www.mumbairesort.in/blog/amazing-facts-you-didnt-know-about-mumbai/ |accessdate=6 October 2018}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
* [http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-history2.html Time line of Indian Railways]
* [http://www.irfca.org/gallery/Heritage/Colaba.jpg.html Colaba Station]
*https://wr.indianrailways.gov.in/cris/uploads/files/1392817958306-article2.pdf

[[Category:Defunct railway stations in Mumbai]]

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