piyushksaini0003@gmail.com The terminus was designed by a British architectural engineer Frederick William Stevens from an initial design by Axel Haig, in an exuberant Italian Gothic style. Its construction began in 1878, in a location south of the old Bori Bunder railway station,[8] and was completed in 1887, the year of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee.Inside Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, 2022
In March 1996, the station’s name was officially changed from Victoria Terminus to Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus after Shivaji, the 17th-century warrior king and the first Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire who founded the polity in the western Marathi-speaking regions of the Deccan Plateau.[9][10][11] In 2017, the station was again renamed to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (with code CSMT), in which the title Maharaj means “great king” or emperor.[12] The initials VT and CST are commonly used for the station.[13]
The terminus is the headquarters of India’s Central Railway. It is one of the busiest railway stations in India,[14] serving as a terminal for both long-distance and suburban trains with a total number of 18 platforms.