Lajpat Nagar metro station

Lajpat Nagar
Delhi Metro station
Lajpat Nagar Metro Station Platform
Location	Lala Lajpat Rai Marg, New Delhi 110024, India
Coordinates	28.570607°N 77.236474°E / 28.570607; 77.236474
Owned by	Delhi Metro
Operated by	Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC)
Line(s)	Violet Line   Pink Line
Platforms	Side platform Platform-1 → Escorts Mujesar Platform-2 →Kashmere Gate via Lal Qila Platform-3 → Shiv Vihar Platform-4 → Majlis Park
Tracks	4
Construction
Structure type	Elevated, Underground
Platform levels	2
Parking	Available
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	LJPN
History
Opened	Violet Line- October 3, 2010 (2010-10-03) Pink Line- August 6, 2018 (2018-08-06)
Electrified	25 kV 50 Hz AC through overhead catenary
Services
Preceding station   Delhi Metro   Following station Jangpura toward Kashmere Gate Violet Line Moolchand toward Raja Nahar Singh South Extension toward Majlis Park Pink Line Vinobapuri toward Shiv Vihar
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Location
Lajpat Nagar Location within Delhi

Lajpat Nagar is an interchange station between Violet Line and Pink Line of the Delhi Metro in Delhi. It is located between Jangpura and Moolchand on the Violet Line in Lajpat Nagar. The station was opened with the first section of the Violet Line on 3 October 2010, in time for the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony on the same day. It became an interchange station with the opening of the Pink Line on 6 August 2018. The station on the Pink Line is underground, whereas the Violet line station is elevated. However, both the lines are seamlessly connected, without commuters having to exit the ticketed area to interchange from one line to another.

Lajpat Nagar Market is one of the famous shopping market in Delhi which is famous for women's clothes, artificial jewelry, Footwear, household electronics and Home Decor items. This market is walking distance from Lajpat Nagar Metro Station and rickshaws can be hired easily for traveling back and forth. Timings of this market is 11:00 AM to 08:00 PM

The station

Facilities

HDFC Bank, SBI, RBL Bank ATMs are available at Lajpat Nagar metro station.

Nearby

Lajpat Nagar Central Market, Amar Colony, Defence Colony, Acharya Munir Ashram, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur College of Nursing, Haldiram's, The Japan Foundation, Guru Nanak Market, Ziyyara Edutech Private Limited

See also

• Delhi
• List of Delhi Metro stations
• Transport in Delhi
• Delhi Monorail
• South Delhi
• New Delhi
• National Capital Region (India)
• List of rapid transit systems
• List of metro systems

External links

• Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (Official site)
• Delhi Metro Annual Reports
• "Station Information". Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (DMRC). Archived from the original on 19 June 2010.
• UrbanRail.Net – Descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations.
• Google. "Lajpat Nagar metro station" (Map). Google Maps. Google. {{cite map}}: |author= has generic name (help)