Grand Trunk Express: Train that ran between M’luru and Pak

The ‘Grand Trunk’ express commenced operating on April 1 1929 between Peshawar in the North Western Railway (British India) and Mangalore in the South Indian Railway. The two coaches of this train made their way to Madras attached to the South Indian Railway’s Mangalore-Madras mail train. At Itarsi, the two through coaches from Mangalore were attached to the Great Indian Peninsular Railway’s Bombay-Delhi service.