{"id":569728,"date":"2023-04-14T10:40:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T05:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=569728"},"modified":"2023-04-14T11:23:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T05:53:05","slug":"in-west-bengal-test-run-of-underwater-metro-successful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/in-west-bengal-test-run-of-underwater-metro-successful\/","title":{"rendered":"In West Bengal, test run of underwater Metro successful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only officials and engineers on board, Kolkata Metro created history on Wednesday when its rake ran through a tunnel under the Hoogly from Kolkata to Howrah. \u201cThis is a revolutionary step in providing a modern transport system to the people of Kolkata and its suburbs,\u201d officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Metro Railway General Manager P Uday Kumar Reddy travelled from the Mahakaran station in Kolkata to Howrah Maidan. Later, another rake reached Howrah Maidan by the same route.<\/p>\n<p>Terming it a \u2018historic event\u2019, Reddy said, \u201cTrial runs between Howrah Maidan and Esplanade station will be conducted for the next seven months, following which regular services on this stretch will begin.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only officials and engineers on board, Kolkata Metro created history on Wednesday when its rake ran through a tunnel under the Hoogly from Kolkata to Howrah. \u201cThis is a revolutionary step in providing a modern transport system to the people of Kolkata and its suburbs,\u201d officials said. Metro Railway General Manager P Uday Kumar Reddy travelled from the Mahakaran station in Kolkata to Howrah Maidan. Later, another rake reached Howrah Maidan by the same route. Terming it a \u2018historic event\u2019, Reddy said, \u201cTrial runs between Howrah Maidan and Esplanade station will be conducted for the next seven months, following which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,266,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}