Calcutta Tramways Company

Calcutta Tramways Company
Company typeTram network
Founded1880[1]
Defunct2016
FateMerged with WBTC
SuccessorWest Bengal Transport Corporation
Headquarters,
Area served
Kolkata
ServicesTram, Bus
OwnerGovernment of West Bengal
ParentCalcutta Tramways Company (England)
Websitecalcuttatramways.com

Calcutta Tramways Company (CTC) was a state-run company that operated trams and buses in and around Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta) in West Bengal, India. The Kolkata tram is the only operating tramway in India and is the oldest electric tram in India, operating since 1902.[2][3][4]

CTC has been merged into WBTC since 2016.[5]

  1. ^ [1] Archived 27 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine CTC website. Accessed 16 August 2013.
  2. ^ "Kolkata trams to get a GenX makeover". The Times of India. 13 July 2012. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013.
  3. ^ "Reaching India". New Delhi: Times Internet Limited. Archived from the original on 16 October 2007. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  4. ^ "Special tram rides to commemorate Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel prize". The Economic Times.
  5. ^ West Bengal Transport Corporation constituted – CSTC, CTC and WBSTC merged in to WBTC