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The alternate conceptual plan has been submitted to the Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC), the agency implementing the 14.75-km under-river rail link between Salt Lake and Howrah. KOLKATA: The ...
Kolkata Metro Update: Third rail replacement work on Blue line begins at Girish Park today—Details inside ... The plan includes introducing 35 kilometers of aluminum third rail over the next two ...
In spite of a head-start of more than three decades, the Kolkata Metro has lagged behind its younger sibling, the Delhi Metro.It was set up as early as in 1969, the master plan was ready by 1971 ...
Metro rail projects in Kolkata have always suffered for one reason or the other and 36 years after the first Metro started in Kolkata, only 32.25 km of one N-S line and seven km of East-West line ...
Though his tube rail plan never saw the light of day, Sir Harley has left a stamp on Kolkata. In 1928, the city's electricity supply company, CESC, asked him to build a tunnel under the Hooghly to ...
When Kolkata Metro's 3.4-km underground section between Esplanade and Bhawanipur (now Netaji Bhavan) was launched on October 24, 1984, it wasn't just the country’s first metro rail service, but ...
A three- to four-year long project has been undertaken for this historic tunnel of Kolkata Metro Rail. Train services may be partially or completely suspended at various times during this work.
A 17-km and ₹2,619 metro rail project in Kolkata, proposed to connect Joka near IIM Calcutta with the business district, has lost its way in the seeing political quagmire. A pet project of ...
You may be familiar with branding of football clubs like Kingfisher East Bengal or McDowell’s Mohun Bagan. Soon, Kolkata’s Metro Rail stations could be up for similar branding.
Though his tube rail plan never saw the light of day, Sir Harley has left a stamp on Kolkata. In 1928, the city's electricity supply company, CESC, asked him to build a tunnel under the Hooghly to ...