IRFCA

Photo Gallery

Home Forum FAQ Docs Articles Trips
Login
  1. Gallery
  2. Heritage and History
  3. Timetables
  4. scan0010

Howrah-Delhi EIR 1943. Note the Doon-Punjab express. Note the predeccesors of today's Kalka, 2321/22, and Toofan. (Samar)

Date: 2009-10-27
Full size: 612x1024
Next • Last • First • Previous
scan0010

Photo Properties

Summary  Details
Make HP Model HP Scanjet djf2100
Color Space sRGB Date/Time 2009 Oct 27 00:19:37 +0000

Recent comments

Thanks Samar for sharing this!

Posted by Rahul on 2009 Oct 27 14:41:48 +0000

Also Bombay mail and Frontier mail did not have and even till now do not have a common path or point anywhere in their run.

Posted by Samar on 2009 Oct 26 23:11:31 +0000

| show fullshow summary

Samar, thanks for posting such a treasure!
Karan, the answer to your question is Yes and No. As long as "No+Name" was unique, having duplicate no OR name did not matter much. E.g. EIR had 5 Up Punjab Mail. GIP too had 5 Dn Punjab Mail. The GIP...

Samar, thanks for posting such a treasure!
Karan, the answer to your question is Yes and No. As long as "No+Name" was unique, having duplicate no OR name did not matter much. E.g. EIR had 5 Up Punjab Mail. GIP too had 5 Dn Punjab Mail. The GIP train was re-numbered as 37/38 north of Delhi to remove confusion as both no&name were duplicate.

Posted by Shirish Paranjape on 2009 Oct 26 22:35:17 +0000

View All 5 Comments

Note: This site is not officially affiliated with Indian Railways. The official web site of Indian Railways is: http://www.indianrailways.gov.in
Please contact the webmasters for permissions to re-use pictures.

Contact Us

  • Website related: webmaster@irfca.org
  • Forum Related: moderators@irfca.org
  • Research & Contributions: webmaster@irfca.org

Other Links

  • Home
  • Forum
  • About
  • Legal Information & Disclaimers

Copyright © 2004–2026, IRFCA.org