On history track: Punjab Mail chugs into 100th year
Updated On: 17 June, 2011 09:53 AM IST | | Agencies
Once the preferred service for British officials disembarking at Mumbai and travelling up-country, the Punjab Mail entered its 100th year this month
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Once the preferred service for British officials disembarking at Mumbai and travelling up-country, the Punjab Mail entered its 100th year this month.
It is the first train to achieve this distinction on Indian Railways' broad gauge network and still connects west and north India.Though the exact date of start of the Punjab Mail, running between the then Bombay and Peshawar in today's Pakistan, is unclear, Central Railway has calculated its "birth date" based on an old document and a passenger complaint - about the train arriving a few minutes late!
"From a cost estimate paper of 1911 and a complaint by an irate passenger dated Oct 12, 1912, about the late arrival of the train by a few minutes at Delhi station, we have more or less inferred that the Punjab Mail, or Punjab Limited, as she was then called, made her inaugural run from Ballard Pier Mole Station, on June 1, 1912," a Central Railway official told IANS.
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