Nepal Transport Service (Nepali: नेपाल ट्रान्सपोर्ट सर्भिस) was the first, and for a time, the largest, Nepalese public bus line.[1] The company was based in the capital Kathmandu and operated from 1959 to 1966. Its head office was located at 122 Asan Tyouda Tol, Kathmandu.[2]
The company was founded by proprietor Karuna Ratna Tuladhar (1920–2008) and Lupau Ratna Tuladhar (1918–1993) of Kathmandu.[3] The brothers were former merchants who operated an ancestral business house in Lhasa that conducted trade between Tibet, India and Nepal.[4][5]
Nepal Transport Service started as a trucking company in March 1959 hauling cargo between Kathmandu and the railhead of Amlekhganj near the Indian border, 190 kilometers to the south over Tribhuvan Highway.[6] It is the country's first highway which opened to jeep traffic in 1956, and was subsequently improved to handle larger vehicles.[7]
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- ^ Tuladhar, Kamal Ratna (2011) Caravan to Lhasa: A Merchant of Kathmandu in Traditional Tibet. Kathmandu: Lijala & Tisa. ISBN 99946-58-91-3.
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- ^ Shrestha, Surya Bahadur (2008). "Railway Development In Nepal". The Rising Nepal. Archived from the original on 4 December 2010. Retrieved 21 February 2011.
- ^ Department of Roads, Ministry of Physical Planning and Works. "Project Profile of Priority Projects along the Asian Highway" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 21 February 2011.