Sealdah Rajdhani Thrasing Bally Bridge, Vivekananda Setu near Bally Ghat , 12313 Rajdhani express

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12313 UP sealdah new delhi Rajdhani express is crossing Bally Bridge or  Vivekananda Setu near Bally Ghat station . Indian Railways. near Dakshineswar

Sealdah Rajdhani Express connects Sealdah(Kolkata) and Delhi. It is the second fastest train after Sealdah - New Delhi Duronto Express on the Sealdah-Delhi sector. It operates as train number 12313 from Sealdah(Kolkata) to New Delhi Railway Station and as train number 12314 in the reverse direction. The train of LHB coaches is regularly hauled by a WAP 7 locomotive. Sometimes WAP-4 / WAP-5 locomotives can be seen as an offlink. First service1st July 2000; 

BALLY BRIDGE : 
Vivekananda Setu (also called Willingdon Bridge and Bally Bridge) is a bridge over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India. It links the city of Howrah, at Bally, to its twin city of Kolkata, at Dakshineswar. Completed in December 1932, it is a multispan steel bridge and was built to provide road and rail link between the Calcutta Port and its hinterland. It is 2,887 feet (880 m) long.

The erection and deep well sinking of the bridge was done by famous Kutchi-Mestricontractor and Industrialist Rai Bahadur Jagmal Raja Chauhan.[2] His nameplate can still be seen on each girder of the bridge.The construction of bridge started in year 1926 and was completed in year 1932.The fabrication of the bridge was done at works of Braithwate & Company, Calcutta.The Bally Bridge was named Willingdon Bridge after Viceroy of India, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, who inaugurated it.The first train that ran across the bridge was named Jagmal Raja Howrah Express by the British.The bridge cost over ₹1 crore(US$160,000) in those years.

Dakshineswar Kali Temple
Coordinates : 22°39′18″N 88°21′28″E
Country : India. State : West Bengal

It  is a Hindu temple located in Dakshineswar near Kolkata. Situated on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, the presiding deity of the temple is Bhavatarini, an aspect of Kali, meaning, 'She who liberates Her devotees from the ocean of existence i.e. Saṃsāra'.The temple was built in 1855 by Rani Rashmoni, a philanthropist and a devotee of Kali. The temple is famous for its association with Ramakrishna, a mystic of 19th Century Bengal.
The temple compound, apart from the nine-spired main temple, contains a large courtyard surrounding the temple, with rooms along the boundary walls. There are twelve shrines dedicated to Shiva—Kali's companion—along the riverfront, a temple to Radha-Krishna, a bathing ghat on the river, a shrine dedicated to Rani Rashmoni. 'Nahavat-Khana', the chamber in the northwestern corner just beyond the last of the Shiva temples, is where Ramakrishna spent a considerable part of his life.The Dakshineswar Kali Temple was founded around the middle of the 19th century by Rani Rashmoni.

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