৵৵✓ Farakka Barrage, Section 31, Part - 3/3
NOSTALGIC CHILDHOOD MEMORY OF CROSSING THE GANGES BY FERRY IN CALCUTTA – SILIGURI RAIL ROUTE KALICHARAN MUKHERJEE FEELS TO SHARE HIS KNOWLEDGE REGARDING ABOVE SUBJECT. I would like to share the knowledge about crossing of the Ganges by Ferry run by Railways, which might be of interest to those who have not experienced the same and also as a nostalgia to those who had travelled in that Route. To understand this fully by the younger generation, one has to go through little History of Calcutta – Siliguri Rail Route. So I start from the history (collected from various articles on Indian Railways from the net) with my experience coming in due time in this chronicle. During the British period, all connections to North Bengal were through East Bengal (now Bangladesh). Calcutta – Siliguri Rail Route was in two laps. The first lap was a 185 km journey over Broad Gauge track started in 1878 under Eastern Bengal State Railway from Calcutta Station (later renamed Sealdah) to Damookdeah Ghat on the...