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  2. West Bengal Transport Corporation - Wikipedia

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    West Bengal Transport Corporation (WBTC) [1] is a West Bengal state government undertaken corporation.It plies buses, trams and ferries in the state. It was formed by merging existing state transport agencies, namely the Calcutta State Transport Corporation, the Calcutta Tramways Company and the West Bengal Surface Transport Corporation.

  3. Gangasagar - Wikipedia

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    The area attracts large number of tourists – Gangasagar and Fraserganj-Bakkhali are worth mentioning. Gobardhanpur holds a promise for the future. [5] [6] [7] Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.

  4. Transport in Kolkata - Wikipedia

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    Kolkata was the first city in South Asia to have an underground railway system that started operating in 1984. Kolkata Metro is the only metro system in India owned by the Indian Railways. It is operated by 2 subsidiaries of Indian Railways, the Metro Railway, Kolkata and Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation.

  5. Sagar Island - Wikipedia

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    Sagar Island is an island in the Ganges delta, lying on the continental shelf of Bay of Bengal about 100 km (54 nautical miles) south of Kolkata.This island forms the Sagar CD Block in Kakdwip subdivision of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian State of West Bengal.

  6. Mahatma Gandhi Road metro station (Kolkata) - Wikipedia

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    Kolkata/Esplanade travel guide from Wikivoyage; Official website for line 1 (archived 20 August 2007) UrbanRail.Net – descriptions of all metro systems in the world, each with a schematic map showing all stations. "Mahatma Gandhi Road station" (Map). Google Maps

  7. Barrackpore Trunk Road - Wikipedia

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    This line was meant to enable a quick commute from the northernmost suburbs to South Kolkata. [26] [16] Although the work never started as the Government of West Bengal had proposed for realignment of the line via Kalyani Expressway, due to the presence of arterial water pipelines under BT Road, that supply water to Kolkata. The construction ...

  8. Transport between India and Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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    The Kolkata-Dhaka bus service has remained uninterrupted, unlike the Delhi-Lahore bus that was suspended during the 2001-2002 India-Pakistan standoff. The Kolkata-Dhaka Govt. bus is operated jointly by the West Bengal Surface Transport Corporation and the Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC is the State Road Transport arm of the ...

  9. London–Calcutta bus service - Wikipedia

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    The bus service from London, England to Calcutta, India (now Kolkata) was considered to be the longest bus route in the world. [1] [2] [3] The bus service, which started in 1957, was routed to India via Belgium, Yugoslavia and North Western India. [4] This route is also known as the Hippie Route. It took about 50 days for the bus to reach ...