CTC Staff Car - 6 --- These are the refurbished K-class trams and among the first double-coach SLC type trams with wheels between the coaches, rebuilt entirely at the Nonapukur Workshop of CTC during the post independence era. Fondly called an 'Elephant Car' or 'Haathi Gari' by the CTC workersas its cab and back-end is narrow and slightly slanted forward, like the head of an elephant without the trunk. These were the high-speed tramcars with an improved engine, designed to run on express routes such as Galiff Street, Ballygunge, Tollygunge, Behala and Khidirpur. It was longer than an articulated Sundari trams with more space in both the coaches including the Driver's cab.

This tramcar with re-aligned road number was spotted at Gariahat depot where this beautiful K-class tram with complete wooden interiors was stationed in utter neglect under the open sky exposed to sun & rain and getting rotted. It was the original # 498 of CTC. Later a dismantled K-class Staff Car (SC-6) was rebuilt as 'Gitanjali' (with new Road number # 498) at Nonapukur Workshop on the occssion of 100 years Nobel Prize Winning of Rabindranath Tagore. Thus the road numbers were inter-changed. But idea behind the whole number game is still not very clear. Photographed by Roy on 2nd October 2019.