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View from inside the caged window of a Kolkata tram! See the girdles of steel and iron that make up this iconic Calcutta bridge. Howrah Bridge with trams and black-and-yellow Ambassador taxis on it, in Kolkata circa 1985-1990 The experience of a journey in a Kolkata tram is something else. See the driver's perspective in this 1980's - 1990's view from inside a tram doing the rounds of Calcutta city. See the ramshackle neighbourhood the tram is traversing, with the old diesel buses plying on the roads, in this video from the olden days. Hand drawn carts, cyclists and pedestrians rode alongside or even in front of the oncoming tram, going at roughly the same speed. A ticket conductor goes through the tram, collecting fares. Archival footage of the famous trams of Kolkata of the 1990's. Calcu
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