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The Victoria Tramcar restaurant will make four trips of about two hours each, over lunch and dinner. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangementmore-inIn a unique initiative to celebrate Kolkata’s tram services, a restaurant in a moving tramcar was unveiled on Saturday. Dwindling serviceFrom more than 52 routes spanning 70 km in the 1960s, tram services now operate on only five routes covering 17 km. “We will offer two rides during lunch time and two during the evening,” said Sanjiv Goswami, director of The Victoria group, a restaurant operator that has secured the rights to run the tramcar dining service. Once a major form of public transport, the slow moving trams are no longer the city commuter’s preferred choice ..