Esplanade Tram Depot (Kolkata)

India / Bangla / Barabazar / Kolkata
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Tram Terminus.
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Coordinates:   22°33'53"N   88°21'0"E

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  • Here is a maintenance car on the city's antiquated tramline. Under the white letters you can make out the original ones for Calcutta Transport.
  • Kolkata's Fort William is surrounded, for defensive purposes, by a wide parade ground, the maidan. At its northern edge is the Ochterlony Monument of 1828, built to commemorate the Nepal War of 1814-16. How support a 165-foot tower in riverside sediment? Eighty-two sal logs were sunk as piles. Over them the builders put a teak frame. Then the masonry began. There are 218 steps to the top, but the thing's locked tight. Today, it's been renamed for the martyrs in the struggle for independence. (Yes, sahid is the same word as shaheed, or martyr, the name applied by sympathizers to today's suicide bombers.)
  • There is a mount here with hundreds of rats living here. It's really incredible to see them with your hair standing on end. Rats are believed to be holy and so they are worshipped as Gods. Some people make their journey from faraway places to come here to see and feed the rats. Others worship them.
  • TRAM IS A HERITAGE OF CALCUTTA ALL OVER INDIA THIS IS ONLY IN THIS CITY OF JOY
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