India’s oldest running train, Punjab Mail, which made her maiden run out of Ballard Pier Mole station in 1912, turned 110 on Tuesday.
The origins of the train are rather unclear but it is known to have journeyed from Bombay and Peshawar in its early years.
Over 16 years older than the glamorous Frontier Mail, the Punjab Mail or Punjab Limited as she was then called, first steamed out on June 1, 1912.
The Ballard Pier Mole, from where it started its journey, was a hub for British-era Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GPIR) services.
The Officers of the British Raj, along with their wives, on their first posting in Colonial India, had travelled in the train as part of their Southampton to Bombay 13-day-long steamer voyage.
