Kolkata Tram - 545 --- A Belgachia depot fiber-body tramcar of Route # 1 was taking a breather at Esplanade junction loop before a starting-off for a return journey to Belgachia on a sunday morning. Photographed by Roy on 7th April 2013.
The Esplanade line to Belgachia via College Street, Cornwallis Street (now Bidhan Sarani), Shyambazar was commisioned in the year 1903 following which several routes from Esplanade/Dalhousie, Gariahat, Park Circus, Howrah etc. to Belgachia started via Harrison Road (now M G Road), Cornwallis Street, Upper Circular Road (now APC Road) & Lower Circular Road (AJC Bose Road). All these routes gradually became the major lifelines of the then north Calcutta.