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http://wikitravel.org/en/Rail_travel_in_India
Although distances in India are long and 
Indian trains aren't the world's best, 
travelling in these can add a fascinating 
new dimension to a visitor's experience of 
the country. There is virtually no better 
way to get to make friends with the people 
and see the spectacular and diverse Indian 
countryside. 

Indian Railways (IR) is the third largest 
rail network in the world, and the third 
most dense network as well. Tracks running 
well over a 100,000 kilometers help connect 
about 7500 stations, ferrying nearly 20 
million people every day. 

The Indian Railways timetable is littered 
with trains that have been in existence 
for over a hundred, and in some cases a 
hundred and fifty, years. The Kalka Mail, 
numbered 1up/2dn because of its importance, 
has been running since 1866, first between 
Howrah and Delhi and then, about 20 years 
later, between Kalka and Howrah. The 
historic trains tend to be Mail trains 
because of their important role in carrying 
mail (one could post a letter on the Kalka 
Mail as recently as 10 years ago!) but their 
importance has declined with the advent of 
air and road transport. Today the Kalka Mail 
is renumbered a more information packed but 
less glamorous 2311/2312. The 3up/4dn Assam 
Mail which took 48 hours and a ferry crossing 
to get from Barauni Junction in Central 
Bihar to Dibrugarh Town near India's 
border with China and Myanmar no longer 
runs, a victim of the Broad Gauge. The 
Frontier Mail, perhaps the most famous 
of Indian trains, that ran from Bombay to 
Peshawar is now called the Golden Temple 
Mail and runs only as far as Amritsar - 
Peshawar, Lahore, and Rawalpindi having become 
a part of a new country. The Calcutta Mail 
meandered across Central India from Bombay to 
Howrah via Bhopal and Allahabad, synchronizing 
its schedule with the arrival of ships from 
England - so that the Viceroy could get his 
mail as quickly as possible.


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