Tram train in kolkata

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On February 24, 1873, a tram service started in Kolkata and quickly endeared itself to the city. Fifteen years later, Rudyard Kipling would write in The City of Dreadful Night: “There is a steady roar of traffic, cut every two minutes by the deep roll of the trams... From the east goes up to the sky the clamour of Sealdah, the rumble of the trams, and the voices of all Bow Bazar chaffering and making merry.”
Kolkata’s early trams were drawn by horses. Their route from Armenian Ghat to Sealdah was just 3.9km long, but it served to transport goods and passengers to Howrah and Sealdah railway stations. Armenian Ghat even had a railway ticket booking counter for Howrah station.
A century and a half later, the city’s first mass transit system is still alive (but only just). It has outlived many others to become Asia’s oldest functioning tram system.
In 1902, Kolkata was the first city to get the electric tram. The transport instantly became popular with the working class who were looking for an economical mode of travel. The West Bengal capital remains the only city in the country that still has a working tram route and a fleet of tramcars