Diamond Thoughts

Do you know that an AC train was started in India on 1 September 1928, whose name was – Punjab Mail and in 1934, AC coaches were added to this train and it was named Frontier Mail…

At that time, trains were divided into first and second class, only Britishers were allowed to travel in first class. For this reason, it was converted into AC bogie to keep it cool.
The British had created this system for their convenience, in which instead of AC, ice blocks were used, which were kept under the floor…
This train started on 1 September 1928 from Ballard Pier station in Mumbai to Peshawar (now in Pakistan) via Delhi, Bathinda, Firozpur and Lahore, but in March 1930 it was diverted to Saharanpur, Ambala, Amritsar and Lahore. .
Earlier, the bogie was not kept cool by using ice blocks, but later an AC system was added to it…
The name of this train was Frontier Mail, which later i.e. in 1996 started operating under the name of #Golden_Temple Mail.
Frontier Mail was said to be one of the most #luxury trains of the British era. Earlier it used to run on steam at a speed of 60 km, but now it is run on electricity…
Since independence in 1947, this train has been running between Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus) in Mumbai and Firozpur in Punjab. Today, this train with 24 bogies also has general and sleeper class bogies along with AC. Now its one-way journey is 1,930 kilometers.

This train has been in existence for more than 100 year