Classic route
Golden Temple Mail
Mumbai → Amritsar · India
Golden Temple Mail in pictures
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- Distance
- 1,890 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 32 h
- Average speed
- 59 km/h
- Top speed
- 110 km/h
- Operator
- Indian Railways
- Train
- WAP-7 · LHB rake
- Countries
- India
- In service since
- 1928
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Born 1928 as the Frontier Mail to Peshawar: the Raj’s most glamorous train still runs daily, Mumbai to the Golden Temple’s city, 1,890 km up the map.
How this line was checked
- The 1386 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 5423932 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Indian Railways — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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