The Golden Temple Mail, previously known as the Frontier Mail, is one of the oldest running train routes in India, itself boasting one of the oldest and largest rail networks still in operation today.
In its original form, the Frontier Mail connected Bombay (now Mumbai) and Peshawar, in North-West Frontier Province of British India and that's how the name was derived. This train has a mention in Hindi film Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero and Subhash Chandra Bose is reported to have traveled in Frontier Mail to Peshawar in 1944, from there escaping to Kabul in Afghanistan. After the Partition of India, the Frontier Mail connected Mumbai and Amritsar, which is the last city in India on route to Wagah. In 1996, it was renamed as the Golden Temple Mail (12903UP/12904DN) after the Golden Temple, one of the holiest shrines in the Sikh religion.
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