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The 12903 / 12904 Golden Temple SF Mail is a Daily Superfast Mail train of Superfast express category trains belonging to Indian Railways that runs daily between Mumbai Central (MMCT) in Maharashtra and Amritsar Junction (ASR) in Punjab. It is the fastest train from Mumbai to Amritsar On daily basis .
The Imperial Indian Mail (now called 12321 up /12322 down Howrah–Mumbai Mail via Jabalpur), running on this route, was possibly the first named train of Indian Railways. The Mumbai–Howrah Mail via Allahabad is called Calcutta Mail between Mumbai and Allahabad, and Mumbai Mail (some still call it by its old name, Bombay Mail ) between ...
The Indian Standard Time was adopted on 1 January 1906 during the British era with the phasing out of its precursor Madras Time (Railway Time), [2] and after Independence in 1947, the Union government established IST as the official time for the whole country, although Kolkata and Mumbai retained their own local time (known as Calcutta Time and Bombay Time) until 1948 and 1955, respectively. [3]
This article lists conventional railway lines of India. For urban railway lines, see Urban rail transit in India, for high-speed railway lines and speed classification, see List of high-speed railway lines in India.
On 1 January 1925 the British Indian Government took over the management of the East Indian Railway [4] and divided it into six divisions: Howrah, Asansol, Danapur, Allahabad, Lucknow and Moradabad. On 14 April 1952, Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India, inaugurated two new zones of the first six zones of the Indian Railways.
The Agra–Gwalior line was opened by the Maharaja of Gwalior in 1881 and it became the Scindia State Railway. The Indian Midland Railway built the Gwalior–Jhansi line and the Jhansi–Bhopal line in 1889. [3] The Bhopal–Itarsi line was opened by the Begum of Bhopal in 1884. [3] Itarsi was linked with Nagpur between 1923 and 1924. [4]
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Clock on The Exchange, Bristol, showing two minute hands, one for London time and one for Bristol time (GMT minus 11 minutes).. Railway time was the standardised time arrangement first applied by the Great Western Railway in England in November 1840, the first recorded occasion when different local mean times were synchronised and a single standard time applied.