• About Us
  • The TFT Story
  • Team
  • Write for TFT
  • Online advertisement tariff
  • Donate To Us
Sunday, August 14, 2022
  • Home
  • Editorials
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Features
  • Spotlight
  • Videos
  • Citizens’ Voice
  • Lifestyle
  • Editor’s Picks
  • Good Times
  • More
    • About Us
    • Team
    • Write for TFT
    • The TFT Story
    • Donate To Us
  • Home
  • Editorials
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Features
  • Spotlight
  • Videos
  • Citizens’ Voice
  • Lifestyle
  • Editor’s Picks
  • Good Times
  • More
    • About Us
    • Team
    • Write for TFT
    • The TFT Story
    • Donate To Us
No Result
View All Result
No Result
View All Result
Home Photo Archive

Ready to Depart (1895)

TFT archives collection by TFT archives collection
August 9, 2019
in Features, Photo Archive
4
SHARES
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

This photograph shows the Frontier Mail ready for departure from Ballard Pier, Bombay towards Peshawar.
The train was operated by the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway. The distance from Bombay to Peshawar was 2,335 kilometres which the train covered in 72 hours. It once had the claim of being the fastest long-distance train in British India.

In August 1929, 11 months after its inauguration, when the train arrived 15 min late in Peshawar, there was a huge uproar in railway circles, with the driver being asked to explain the reasons for this delay. In 1930, The Times of London described it as ‘one of the most famous express trains within the British Empire.’

The Ballard Pier Mall Station at the Bombay harbour was a convenient point for passengers arriving from England by ship. It was also a pick up spot for mail brought in from Europe.

Over its 20 years of service, the train carried governors and generals, civil servants and soldiers and a multitude of Indians. In 1944, Subhas Chandra Bose used it to escape to Afghanistan en route to Hitler’s Germany. At the same time, Mohammed Rafi boarded its III Class compartment in Lahore to seek his destiny in Bombay.

Also Read:

Dilapidated Heritage

The Home They Left Behind

Tags: Photo Archive
Previous Post

Azadi March: All Bets Are Off!

Next Post

Movement for Restoration of Democracy (1983)

TFT archives collection

TFT archives collection

Next Post

Vale Memories

Recent News

PTI Social Media Activist Apologises For Running A Campaign Against The Army

PTI Social Media Activist Apologises For Running A Campaign Against The Army

August 13, 2022
Dilapidated Heritage

Dilapidated Heritage

August 13, 2022
Re-imagining Pakistan’s Development Sector

Re-imagining Pakistan’s Development Sector

August 13, 2022

Twitter

Donate To Us

Subscribe
The Friday Times – Naya Daur

THE TRUTH WILL OUT


The Friday Times is Pakistan’s first independent weekly, founded in 1989. In 2021, the publication went into collaboration with digital news platform Naya Daur Media to publish under a daily cycle.


Social Media

Latest News

  • All
  • News
  • Editorials
  • Features
  • Analysis
  • Lifestyle
PTI Social Media Activist Apologises For Running A Campaign Against The Army

PTI Social Media Activist Apologises For Running A Campaign Against The Army

by News Desk
August 13, 2022
0

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s social media activist Dr...

Dilapidated Heritage

Dilapidated Heritage

by Mian Ahmad Farooq
August 13, 2022
0

Sometimes we forget – or more aptly put,...

Social Feed

  • About Us
  • The TFT Story
  • Team
  • Write for TFT
  • Online advertisement tariff
  • Donate To Us

© 2022 All Rights Reserved.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Editorials
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Features
  • Spotlight
  • Videos
  • Citizens’ Voice
  • Lifestyle
  • Editor’s Picks
  • Good Times
  • More
    • About Us
    • Team
    • Write for TFT
    • The TFT Story
    • Donate To Us

© 2022 All Rights Reserved.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In

Add New Playlist