In the year 1984, the first metro service in the country was started in Kolkata. Kolkata Metro said goodbye to non-AC coaches on its 37th foundation day on 24 October.
Kolkata. Kolkata Metro on Sunday formally bid farewell to non-AC coaches. Some of these coaches were in service since the inception of the country’s first underground railway in 1984.
Kolkata Metro, which started operations on this day in the year 1984, also organized an exhibition titled ‘Down the Memory Lane’ at Mahanayak Uttam Kumar station to commemorate the process of removal of non-AC coaches.
Organizing Photo Exhibition
Manoj Joshi, General Manager, Kolkata Metro said, “As part of the farewell to these coaches, we have organized a photo exhibition, which will depict the past, present and future of Metro Railways.”
Extend the Metro rail network work continues
He said that it went the opportunity to live again those moments that the city is shared with the subway train to become an integral part of people’s lives which. Joshi said, “Work is on to increase the network of Metro Rail and within two to three years the new routes of Metro will start operating.”
The service of Kolkata Metro was started in the year 1984.
It is noteworthy that the official start of Kolkata Metro was started in 1984 but the idea to build it had started from British India itself. The underground ‘East-West tube railway’ in Kolkata was proposed by British engineer Harley Dalrymple in 1921. But for a long time this proposal was kept in cold storage because the fund was repeatedly called for. The real acceleration in the work of this project came after independence during the time of Chief Minister Bidhan Chandra Roy. But even at that time no remarkable work could be done. Metro work accelerated in the 70s and the first metro was run in Kolkata in 1984.
