Thanks Samar for sharing this!

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

At that time the Punjab Mail of today was called the Bombay-Ferozepore Express. So the two Punjab Mails did not co-exist (from 1943 Bradshaw).

Posted by Ajai Banerji on 2009 Oct 27 08:07:12 +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

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

Look the the numbering - even numbers are for DOWN trains, compared too today's system of Odd DOWN Even UP.

Posted by Karan Desai on 2009 Oct 26 21:49:23 +0000

I see EIR's train #3 is Bombay Mail. In the same era, BB&CI's train #3 was Frontier Mail. Didn't this system of overlapping numbers cause confusion then?

Posted by Karan Desai on 2009 Oct 26 21:47:59 +0000

To add more, The Toofan ran via Grand chord and via Aligarh those days. Bombay mail has the same route as of today. When did it run via Patna though?

Posted by Samar on 2009 Oct 26 19:27:55 +0000

I do know that the first issue of "Trains at a Glance" came in the latter half of 1977. So the All India TT and TAAG coexisted for a while?

Posted by Ajai Banerji on 2009 Oct 12 12:29:27 +0000

Jimmy, The Zonal Time Tables, I believe, WERE always there.
The All India Time-table, seen in this photograph, more or less, is a mix of all the Zonal TTs.
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I have with me 1956 SR Time-table.:-)

Posted by V. Srinavasa Prasad on 2009 Oct 12 10:38:37 +0000

Jitendra, Zonal timetables have always been published - the earliest I have seen is 1899 issue of BBCIR though I am sure they must be published before this time as well. The All India complete Railway Time Table was published by Indian Railway for a limited time only, perhaps to get a piece of the sales of the Bradshaw but I am only guessing this. It must have been a Herculean task for the Railway Board to collect and compile this information from various zones and publish in time. I have seen zonal timetables with a ten page errata!

Posted by Harsh Vardhan on 2009 Oct 12 05:40:32 +0000