Presenting some pictures from a recent trip to Princep Ghat, one of the 19 stations under the tutelage of the Kolkata Circular Railways...
The Kolkata Circular Railways starts at Dum Dum Junction as a single line and continues upto Majherhat. From Majherhat upto Ballygunge Junction this line shares track with the Budge-Budge-Sealdah section.
From Ballygunge upto Park-Circus this line goes in parallel with the Diamond-Harbour-Sealdah main line, from Park Circus onwards till Bidhan-nagar Road this line bypasses Sealdah Station and merges with the Sealdah-Naihati main...
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line at Kankurganchi Jn cabin.
Thus this line starts and terminates at Dum Dum Junction.....
Princep Ghat serves it's namesake place in Kolkata. Princep Gate serves as a memorial for James Princep, and hence is a very popular place for the people to spend their time in the evening adjacent to the cool Ganges breeze!
PPGT and BBDB are major crossing points for local train criss-crossing in the opposing directions...
Oh, and Sealdah's sister terminal station Kolkata lies in this section and a lot people do use the services of the Circular rail (Chakra rail) to ferry in and out of Chitpur....

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Picture 1:- Shows the overall layout of this station
Picture 2 & 4:- Are station board pictures. Anyone and everyone is free to update it into the station timeline.
Picture 3 :- Traditional painting artistry.
Picture 4 :- The Gigantic 'Second Hoogly bridge' or the 'Vidyasagar Setu' looms over the Princep Ghat skyline.
Picture 5, 6 and 7 :- Some evening shots of the evening scenery at the Ganges with the Vidyasagar Setu in the background....

Pictures credits :- Self
Camera used :- Moto G5

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- Arnab

Furious KGP WDG-3A IRCTC Aastha Circuit Tourism Special at its rampaging best smokes away!!
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In a section where E-Locos dominate the diesels like anything, getting a diesel hauled train is like a blessing. And when the Loco is from a shed which hardly gets any mainline Mail/ Express duty, it simply can't get any better.
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3A, the Malati Patpur (MLT)- Kamakhya (KYQ) IRCTC AASTHA CIRCUIT TOURIST SPECIAL races past Madhusudanpur station on ER's HB Chord enroute at its raw MPS.
Northeast Frontier Railways and IRCTC had jointly started the AASTHA CIRCUIT TOURIST SPECIAL. The pilgrimage special train connected Kamakhya with Kolkata, Bhubaneshwar and Puri. The train took tourists to many popular pilgrimage destinations like Gangasagar, Sri Swami Narayan Temple, Kalighat, Birla Temple, Sri Jagannath Temple, Konark Temple and Lingaraj Temple. The train would have various boarding and deboarding stations like Kamakhya, Alipirduar, New Coochbehar, New Jalpaiguri, Malda, Farakka, Pakur, Rampurhat, and Bolpur.

India's only running Tram system | Kolkata (Calcutta) Tram service
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Kolkata tram system is the only tram system presently running in the India.
Calcutta Tramways system (CTC) started operating electric trams from 1902 in India.
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there are 125 Tram vehicles runs in the city.
It uses 550 DC Overhead catenary for supply.
This is one of the cheapest mode of transport and its Eco friendly too.
It uses Standard Gauge track to run the Tram.
There are around 25 Tram routes presently running in the city.
You can see single car and double car Trams running in the city.
While almost all routes are on-street running, the tram runs on reserved track across the Maidan between Esplanade and Kidderpore.
The tram passes over the railway bridge between Shyambazar and Belgachhia, near Tala.
There are interchanges with metro at Belgachhia, Shyambazar, Esplanade, Kalighat and Tollygunge. Shobhabazar, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Central, Jatin Das Park and Rabindra Sarobar metro stations also have tram accessibility.
There are interchanges with train at Bagbazar, Bidhannagar, Park Circus, Ballygunge, Kidderpore, B.B.D Bagh and Tollygunge. Sealdah and Tala rail stations also have tram accessibility.
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Kalighat falta railway .
The 8 coaches train with stream locomative was standing GHOLSHAPUR STATION , behala..
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The Kalighat Falta Railway (KFR) was one of four...
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lines built in the early part of the 20th Century by McLeod & Company, a subsidiary of a London company of managing agents, McLeod Russell & Co. Ltd, to open up undeveloped parts of India, all of them in and around Kolkata.
The running of the trains were managed by a company called the McLeod's Light Railways. This company also owned and managed the Ahmedpur-Katwa, Burdwan- Katwa and the Bankura Damodar Railway lines.
KFR was 26.95 miles (43.37 km) long, opened on 28 May 1917 from Gholeshapur in Behala to Falta and was extended a further 0.92 miles (1.48 km) to kalighat on 7 May 1920.
The lines used were a 2' 6" gauge railway track.
The KFR line was the first in India to use three brand new 2-6-2 side tank AK16 locomotives, built in November 1916 by W. G. Bagnall Ltd. of the Castle Engine Works at Stafford in England. They entered service with KFR in February, 1917. The 'AK' in the name stood for 'Ahmedpur-Katwa'. They were also known as the 'Delta Class' engines (since they were originally ordered by the Egyptian Delta Light Railways but were more successful in India) and they were very successful and a lot many were used in the following years till 1953 when the last order was placed. One of the 1916 built Bagnall locomotives has been preserved by the Phyllis Rampton Trust in the UK.
The Kalighat Falta line closed in 1957.
Some years after the independence of India, when the British owners, McLeod, folded up their operations in India, and the new Government of India and the Government of West Bengal thought it best to close down this stretch of railway tracks. The reclaimed land, from where the tracks used to be, has been used to construct a road - the James Long Sarani in Behala.
data source : wikipedia
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stations :
Kalighat ( now known as New Alipore railway station )
Gholesapur , Behala
Sakher bazar
Thakurpukur
Pailan
Bhasa
Halt No.1
Udairampur
Amtala hat
Halt No. 2 , PratibhaNagar
Halt no 3 Rajarhat
Shirakol
Sibanipur also known as Fatepur.
Dighirpar
Harindanga
Halt no 4 , known as Belsingha
Sahararhat
Falta
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Station source : our admin Sourabh da ( Meter guage )