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Infobox ‘ Transport Links’ info added. Bridge info added
|stateprovince= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bengal West Bengal]
|country= India
|transport= ‘[[East Indian Railway]]’ (EIR), ‘[[Bengal-Nagpur Railway]]’(BNR) , ‘[[Howrah-Amta Light Railway]]’ and '[[Howrah-Sheakhalla Light Railway]]’''See page'' '''[[Howrah Railway Station]]''' ''for details''
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{{Places of Interest|title=Howrah|name=Howrah|link=xxxxx}}
== Howrah Bridge==
''See also separate page'' '''[[Howrah Floating Bridge and Howrah Bridge]]''' ''for further information''<br>The Howrah Bridge was designed to link Howrah with the city of [[Calcutta]]. The old Floating Pontoon Bridge was built by Sir [[Bradford Leslie]] in 1874. It was largely a timber construction which opened to let river traffic through. [[Image:Howrah Bridge - Calcutta.jpg|right|thumb|200x|View of old Floating Pontoon Howrah Bridge]]
In 1937 work began on a new bridge - which is a landmark of Kolkata (Calcutta) today, being one of the foremost cantilever bridges in the world. It was formally opened in 1943 and the old bridge was decommissioned soon after in 1946. The new bridge was renamed Rabindra Setu in 1965 to honour Rabindranath Tagore - the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. However, it is still commonly referred to as the Howrah Bridge.
