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Posted: Dec 19 2019 (11:49)
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जालंधर (करतारपुर), जेएनएन। जालंधर के सूरानुस्सी और करतारपुर स्टेशन के बीच सरयू-यमुना एक्सप्रेस () में बुधवार देर रात आग लगने से करतारपुर रेलवे स्टेशन पर हड़कंप...
Sir, is the information about "Flying Mail" authentic ?
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Thanks for bringing this up.
No, the information in the paragraph is incorrect. The most obvious mistake is the year of introduction - 1853 - which is wrong and even nonsensical. The first public railway in the country was opened in April 1853 in Bombay.
Delhi did not have any railways till 1866. The route to Lahore (via SRE) was opened by 1870 and the Delhi-Panipat-Ambala route was opened only in 1891. There is absolutely no possibility of having any train from Delhi to Karachi in 1853. Both places didn't even have...
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No, the information in the paragraph is incorrect. The most obvious mistake is the year of introduction - 1853 - which is wrong and even nonsensical. The first public railway in the country was opened in April 1853 in Bombay.
Delhi did not have any railways till 1866. The route to Lahore (via SRE) was opened by 1870 and the Delhi-Panipat-Ambala route was opened only in 1891. There is absolutely no possibility of having any train from Delhi to Karachi in 1853. Both places didn't even have...
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The article seems to have pulled the content from the Wikipedia article about the Flying mail, which has a lot of wrong information.