Silk Board Metro Station

Central Silk Board Metro Station — Interchange Station, Namma Metro

Central Silk Board Metro Station is an elevated interchange station on Namma Metro in Bengaluru, serving the Yellow Line, with the Blue Line planned. It opened on 2025-08-11.

The station stands above the Central Silk Board junction, for years the most notorious traffic bottleneck in Bengaluru, where Hosur Road meets the Outer Ring Road.

Changing Lines at Central Silk Board Metro Station

Central Silk Board has four platforms. Two serve the Yellow Line today. The other two are built for the Blue Line and are not in service — that corridor will run along the Outer Ring Road towards Kempegowda International Airport and has not opened. Until it does, only the Yellow Line platforms are used.

Central Silk Board Metro Station Platforms

• Platform 1 — Yellow Line, towards Rashtreeya Vidyalaya Road
• Platform 2 — Yellow Line, towards Delta Electronics Bommasandra
• Platform 3 — Blue Line, towards Kempegowda International Airport (Blue Line not yet open — platform not in service)
• Platform 4 — Blue Line, towards Central Silk Board (Blue Line not yet open — platform not in service)

Central Silk Board Metro Station Map & Route Map

Namma Metro’s working interchanges today are Nadaprabhu Kempegowda (Majestic) between the Purple and Green Lines, and Rashtreeya Vidyalaya Road between the Green and Yellow Lines. Further interchanges are built or planned at Mahatma Gandhi Road (Pink), Jayadeva Hospital (Pink), Central Silk Board (Blue), Nagawara (Blue) and Peenya (Orange), none of which are in service yet.

What is Near Central Silk Board Metro Station

The station serves the Central Silk Board junction, the Central Silk Board Colony and the Textile Testing Lab area, at the meeting point of Hosur Road and the Outer Ring Road.

Central Silk Board Metro Station Entry and Exit Gates

The station has 3 entry and exit points: Gate A — Towards Central Silk Board side; Gate B — Towards Textile Testing Lab side; Gate C — Towards Central Silk Board Colony side.

Facilities at Central Silk Board Metro Station

Facilities, parking and accessibility details for Central Silk Board Metro Station are listed below. Fare, parking and timing data is sourced from BMRCL, which notes that additional trains may be run from selected intermediate stations when travel demand rises and that train times can change for planned works.