Delhi Metro Red Line
Twenty-nine stations from Shaheed Sthal (New Bus Adda) in Ghaziabad to Rithala, on the line where the Delhi Metro began.
About the Red Line
On 20 October 2026 DMRC’s website showed the line as “Normal Service”. That is the only live information DMRC publishes; check it on the day you travel.
Under construction and not open: Red Line Rithala – Narela – Nathupur (Kundli). These sections are not part of the line on this page.
Line 1 in DMRC’s numbering, the Red Line runs for 33.48 km between Shaheed Sthal (New Bus Adda) and Rithala. Eight of its 29 stations, from Shaheed Nagar to the end of the line at Shaheed Sthal, lie in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh; the rest are spread across the North East Delhi, East Delhi, Old Delhi, Central North Delhi and North West Delhi districts. The line is elevated almost throughout: only Kashmere Gate is underground, and Shastri Park is at grade.
Five of the stations are interchanges. At Kashmere Gate the Red Line meets the Yellow and Violet Lines, at Inderlok the Green Line and at Madhuban Chowk the Magenta Line. The Pink Line ring crosses it twice, at Welcome and at Netaji Subhash Place, which gives two ways onto the ring from the same line.
Stations on the Red Line
29 stations in DMRC’s order, 5 of them interchanges with another line (marked with a ring and the colours of the other lines).
Shaheed Sthal (New Bus Adda) to Rithala
Main route, 29 stations
Timings and frequency of the Red Line
On weekdays the first train on the Red Line leaves at 05:30 and the last one at 23:56 (earliest and latest departures anywhere on the line, DMRC journey planner).
| From the end of the line | First train (weekdays) | Last train (weekdays) |
|---|---|---|
| Shaheed Sthal (New Bus Adda) → Rithala | 06:00 | 23:00 |
| Rithala → Shaheed Sthal (New Bus Adda) | 06:00 | 23:00 |
Departure times from this station on a weekday, as DMRC’s journey planner gives them (checked on Tuesday 20 October 2026; the planner takes no date). DMRC does not publish separate Saturday, Sunday or holiday times for each station, and on special days it announces changes in advance. A last train after midnight belongs to the previous evening’s service. “Not published” means DMRC’s own answer was inconsistent (arrival before departure), so we leave it out.
Frequency by section
| Section | Weekday peak | Weekday off-peak | Saturday peak | Saturday off-peak | Sunday peak | Sunday off-peak |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shaheed Sthal (New Bus Adda) – Dilshad Garden | 7 min | 8 min 20 s | 7 min 40 s | 9 min | 10 min 30 s | 10 min 30 s |
| Dilshad Garden – Rithala | 3 min 30 s | 4 min 10 s | 3 min 50 s | 4 min 30 s | 5 min 15 s | 5 min 15 s |
Average interval between trains published by DMRC for each section (as on 31.08.2026). Peak hours are 08:00–12:00 and 17:00–21:00, the hours outside DMRC’s off-peak definition. Rapid Metro Gurugram figures come from its own page (peak 08:00–11:00 and 16:00–20:00 on weekdays; Sunday is one flat interval).
History
The Red Line was the first Delhi Metro line to be built. Its opening stretch, Tis Hazari to Shahdara, was inaugurated by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in December 2002, with Kashmere Gate, Shastri Park, Seelampur and Welcome in between. Extensions followed quickly: Tis Hazari to Inderlok on 3 October 2003, and Inderlok to Rithala on 31 March 2004, which brought in Netaji Subhash Place, Rohini and Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital. Shahdara to Dilshad Garden, with Mansarovar Park and Jhilmil, opened on 4 June 2008.
The crossing into Uttar Pradesh came in Phase III. An extension of 9.5 km from Dilshad Garden to Ghaziabad ISBT (New Bus Adda) was approved by DMRC and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in January 2014; construction began in early 2015 and commercial operation started on 8 March 2019. It added eight stations, from Shaheed Nagar to Shaheed Sthal (New Bus Adda), and gave Ghaziabad a second metro link besides the Blue Line branch to Kaushambi and Vaishali.
An extension from Rithala to Narela and Nathupur (Kundli), approved by the Union Cabinet in December 2024, is listed by DMRC as a Phase 4 project and is not open.
How the service works
DMRC’s frequency table splits the line at Dilshad Garden. Between Dilshad Garden and Rithala trains run on average every 3 min 30 s in the weekday peak and every 4 min 10 s off-peak. The Ghaziabad section beyond, to Shaheed Sthal (New Bus Adda), gets half that service: 7 minutes in the peak and 8 min 20 s off-peak. On weekdays the first trains leave both ends at 06:00 and the last at 23:00; counting departures from intermediate stations, the line is served from 05:30 to 23:56. Times for every station are on the metro timings page.
The trains
For two decades the Red Line ran six-coach trains. In November 2022 DMRC put the first two eight-coach trains into service on the line, made by converting trains from its existing fleet of 39 six-coach sets rather than buying new ones. The conversion continued over the following months, and by April 2024 every six-coach train on the Red Line had become an eight-coach train.
Frequently asked questions
The Pink Line is a ring, so it crosses the Red Line at two points: at Welcome, between Seelampur and Shahdara, and at Netaji Subhash Place, between Keshav Puram and Kohat Enclave. Which of the two you use depends on which side of the ring you want to reach.
On 8 March 2019. The 9.5 km extension from Dilshad Garden, approved in January 2014 and built from early 2015, added eight stations from Shaheed Nagar to Shaheed Sthal (New Bus Adda), all of them in Ghaziabad district, Uttar Pradesh.
Tis Hazari to Shahdara on the Red Line, inaugurated by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in December 2002. Within two years the line had been extended to Inderlok and then to Rithala.
Stations, first and last trains, running times, frequencies and fares on this page come from the information the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) publishes on delhimetrorail.com (station pages, journey planner, fare and train-frequency pages), checked on 20 October 2026. metrodelhi.org is an independent guide, not run by DMRC or affiliated with it. Check delhimetrorail.com or the DMRC helpline before you travel.