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

This is awesome

Posted by Venkata Satish on 2009 Oct 27 04:27:26 +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

Here are detailed views of the dual cab locos in Mumbai.

Posted by Apurva Bahadur on 2009 Oct 26 16:35:56 +0000

Many years back, BHEL Bhopal township park had a toy tain with loco front painted in shape of a caterpillar. This loco has a remarkable ressembalnce to that toy train.

Posted by Anant K Singh on 2009 Oct 26 14:33:04 +0000