page_title: Nepal Transport Service
hierarchical_section_title: Nepal Transport Service
caption_attribution_description: 1959 model Chevrolet Viking bus of Nepal Transport Service shown here in 1961.
context_page_description: Nepal Transport Service was the first, and for a time, the largest, Nepalese public bus line. The company was based in the capital Kathmandu and operated from 1959 to 1966. Its head office was located at 122 Asan Tyouda Tol, Kathmandu.
  The company was founded by proprietor Karuna Ratna Tuladhar and Lupau Ratna Tuladhar of Kathmandu. The brothers were former merchants who operated an ancestral business house in Lhasa that conducted trade between Tibet, India and Nepal.
  Nepal Transport Service started as a trucking company in March 1959 hauling cargo between Kathmandu and the railhead of Amlekhganj near the Indian border, 190 kilometers to the south over Tribhuvan Highway. It is the country's first highway which opened to jeep traffic in 1956, and was subsequently improved to handle larger vehicles.
context_section_description: Nepal Transport Service was the first, and for a time, the largest, Nepalese public bus line. The company was based in the capital Kathmandu and operated from 1959 to 1966. Its head office was located at 122 Asan Tyouda Tol, Kathmandu.
  The company was founded by proprietor Karuna Ratna Tuladhar (1920–2008) and Lupau Ratna Tuladhar (1918–1993) of Kathmandu. The brothers were former merchants who operated an ancestral business house in Lhasa that conducted trade between Tibet, India and Nepal.
  Nepal Transport Service started as a trucking company in March 1959 hauling cargo between Kathmandu and the railhead of Amlekhganj near the Indian border, 190 kilometers to the south over Tribhuvan Highway. It is the country's first highway which opened to jeep traffic in 1956, and was subsequently improved to handle larger vehicles.
caption: 1959 model Chevrolet Viking bus of Nepal Transport Service in 1961.
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