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58 Bombay Hospital D1

59 Dutch Consulate E2

60 German Consulate B6

61 Indiatourism D3

Israeli Consulate (see 66)

62 Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation B5

63 New Royal Chemists C1

Portasia (see 53)

64 Singaporean Consulate B6

65 Sri Lankan Consulate E4

66 Thai Consulate B6

67 Thomas Cook E3

8 Transport

68 Air India B5

69 BEST Bus Stand F2

70 Central Railways Reservation Centre F1

71 Emirates Airlines B6

72 Chandni Travels E1

73 Thai Airways C6

Western Railways Reservation Centre (see 61)

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (Victoria Terminus)
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Imposing, exuberant and overflowing with people, this is the city's most extravagant
Gothic building, the beating heart of its railway network, and an aphorism for colonial In-
dia. As historian Christopher London put it, 'the Victoria Terminus is to the British Raj
what the Taj Mahal is to the Mughal empire'. It's a meringue of Victorian, Hindu and
Islamic styles whipped into an imposing Daliesque structure of buttresses, domes, turrets,
spires and stained-glass windows.
Designed by Frederick Stevens, it was completed in 1887, 34 years after the first train
in India left this site. Today it's Asia's busiest train station. Officially renamed Chhatrapati
Shivaji Terminus (CST) in 1998, it's still better known locally as VT. It was added to the
Unesco World Heritage list in 2004.

HISTORIC BUILDING