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1. My memories of Britain’s long and tortured exit 1931-47

   Category: Stories/Major Events Pre-1950

   ... clothes and books from my room. We then rushed to the railway station. Parting with my uncle and aunt was emotional. At 8:45 p.m., I caught the Punjab Mail to Delhi. The train journey to Delhi was mercifully ... Saturday, 27 April 2019

2. Travels to many cities - loving life in Lyallpur

   Category: Stories/Life Back Then

   ... the wonderful fluffy egg omelettes they used to serve for breakfast. From Moradabad we went to Lyallpur (now in Pakistan and renamed Faisalabad). We went to Lahore first by Punjab Mail. There we changed ... Thursday, 01 March 2018

3. Memories of the 1940s

   Category: Stories/Life Back Then

   ... leave Lyallpur in the evening by train, which reached Lahore the next morning. From there we had to catch the Punjab Mail for Howrah, which we reached after three days. We left home in Lyallpur in our ... Saturday, 22 August 2015

4. Breakup of the North Western Railway and the Anglo-Indian community

   Category: Stories/Life Back Then

   ... to Peshawar, (although this train lost a lot of its glamour after Rawalpindi), the Punjab Mails, through trains from both Calcutta and Bombay Victoria Terminus to Lahore, and the Karachi Mail between Lahore ... Thursday, 09 May 2013

5. Railway Travel in the Raj

   Category: Stories/Life Back Then

   ... Temple Mail terminating at Amritsar, because its original terminus was over 1,600 miles from Bombay at Peshawar, which is now in Pakistan. The Punjab Mails of the East Indian and the Great Indian Peninsula ... Sunday, 17 February 2013