Patna City Tramway
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Patna City Tramway
Patna was among the few cities in India having horse-drawn trams as urban transport. The tramway opened in about 1878. The contract to lay the narrow gauge tram tracks was awarded to ‘Stearns and Kitterge’, a british company [1].
The horse-drawn tram in Patna ran a length of 6 miles(9.6km) in the populated stretch of Ashok Rajpath Road, from City Chowk [1] in the east, with its western terminus at Sabzibagh (opposite Pirbahore Police Station) serving Bankipore [2].
The tramway was under the direction of the Patna City Municipality. The tram was discontinued in 1903 due to lack of ridership; plans to extend it further west never materialised [2].
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Google Books “Patna: A Paradise Lost!: Saga of a 2500 Year Old City from Ajatshatru to Present Day Patna” by Navneet Sahay. Chapter 32, part 3; Retrieved 8 May 2017
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wikipedia "Tram Transport In India"/Patna; Retrieved 8 May 2017
