Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus - CSMT

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, is a historic railway terminus and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.The terminus was designed by a British born 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, and was completed in 1887, the year marking 50 years of Queen Victoria's rule.

In March 1996 the station name was changed from Victoria Terminus to "Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus" after Shivaji, the 17th-century warrior king and the first Chhatrapati of Maratha Empire who employed guerrilla tactics to contest the Mughal Empire and found a new state in the western Marathi-speaking regions of the Deccan Plateau.In 2017, the station was again renamed "Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus", where the title Maharaj has literal meaning, "Great king; emperor." Both former initials "VT" and the current, "CST", are also…