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Sarai Kale Khan – Nizamuddin metro station

metro station in Delhi, India

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ28172665 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sarai Kale Khan – Nizamuddin is a metro station under Delhi Metro serving the Pink Line. It became operational on 31 December 2018, as a part of Phase III of Delhi Metro's expansion, under the name Hazrat Nizamuddin, before being renamed to Sarai Kale Khan - Nizamuddin in 2019.

As a part of the Sarai Kale Khan multi-model transport hub on the Inner Ring Road, the Sarai Kale Khan – Nizamuddin metro station facilitates the transfer between the Sarai Kale Khan ISBT, Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station, Sarai Kale Khan RRTS station, and the Sarai Kale Khan HSR interchange on the Delhi–Kolkata high-speed rail corridor and Delhi–Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor, as well as the suburbs in its vicinity, the eponymous Sarai Kale Khan (Birsa Munda Chowk), Nizamuddin East, and Nizamuddin West.

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References

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.

"Sarai Kale Khan - Nizamuddin metro station" (Map).

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sarai Kale Khan – Nizamuddin metro station” is metro station in Delhi, India. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sarai, Kale and Khan, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 2019, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Sarai, Kale and Khan is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “metro station in Delhi, India” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28172665. Authority coordinates are 28.589, 77.257. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018, 2019 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sarai Kale Khan – Nizamuddin metro station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.