Once the lifeline of public transport, 32 kilometers of tram tracks are now either closed down or temporarily suspended. Passenger associations demand more buses as replacement.

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With zero investments in modernization, trams still run on 40s technology while fuel guzzlers choke city roads.

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A senior citizen tram waiting for renovation at Nonapukur workshop. Calcutta tramway network is over 130 year old.

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The once wooden bodies were converted into steel ones, and recently into the new look transparent polycarbonate body. Commuters complain that the transparent polycarbonate trams- designed at a cost of Rs. 14 lakh per tram- is a pain during the sweltering summer months.

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An archival photographs from 1997. Till the early 1990s trams used to cater to an array of passengers. The first car at 4.40 in the morning was staple for those catching a train from the Howrah station; a little later the pious would crowd the tram for a bath in the holy Ganges. The school children escorted by doting mothers, the lawyers and babus roughing it out on crowded trams to reach the office-hub of Dalhousie square- trams were the lifeline before autos, metro and buses became the priority.

A lazy afternoon at Galif street terminus.

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