Golden Temple Mail
The Golden Temple Mail previously known as Frontier Mail is one of the oldest running train routes in India, itself boasting one of the oldest and largest rail networks still in operation today.
In its original form, Frontier Mail connected Bombay (now Mumbai) and Peshawar, in Northwest Frontier Province of then-undivided India. After the Partition of India, Frontier Mail connects Mumbai and Amritsar. It was renamed as Golden Temple Mail (#2903) after the Golden Temple - one of the holiest shrines in the Sikh religion.
History
The Frontier Mail made its debut on 1 September, 1928. When it was first introduced, the train ran between Colaba, Mumbai and Peshawar in present day Pakistan. Soon, the train was able to lay claim as being India's fastest long distance train. The Times newspaper of London described in 1930 that this train was one of the most famous express trains within the British Empire.
The Frontier Mail attained another first, when it got an air-conditioned compartment in 1934. It was one of the first trains in India to achieve this honour.
Today, the Frontier Mail plies between Mumbai Central and Amritsar. The Frontier Mail was renamed the Golden Temple Mail in 1996.
Phir Bhi dil Hai Hindustani (literary article on Frontier/Golden temple Mail in the Sydenham college, Mumbai Magazine year 1999-2000) is informative from the viewpoint of train transport as well as sociolgical and political angle. Moreover it is a literary article.
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