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Posted: Jan 12 2018 (20:08)
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Last Response: Jan 14 2018 (10:23)
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Last Response: Jan 14 2018 (10:23)
A ticket from Firozpur to Lahore used to cost Re 1 in 1947. That too in INTER CLASS. If my memory is right, Interclass used to be a class between First and Second Class. Those days there used to be four classes. First, Inter, Second and Third. Third used to be affectionately called Gandhi class. See Pic of ticket. Courtesy Tweet as can be seen
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Yeah. This site even has a photo showing the AC technology: click here
Air-conditioned coaches, on a permanent basis, were introduced in 1937. The GIPR had experimented with A/C coaches in the past, most prominent being in 1914, when an experimental train used to have a refrigeration unit in the luggage van and cold fluid was circulated through pipes to keep the coaches cool. But these proved to be too cold for comfort and the public lobbied to terminate the service. It is unclear as to which train this is referring to.
Using American-based systems, IR started experimenting with A/C coaches in 1937, and by the end of the year, A/C coaches were operational on Frontier mail (1 coach, from September 1937) and the Calcutta-Bombay mail (September, 1937, most probably...
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Using American-based systems, IR started experimenting with A/C coaches in 1937, and by the end of the year, A/C coaches were operational on Frontier mail (1 coach, from September 1937) and the Calcutta-Bombay mail (September, 1937, most probably...
more...
It started as Howrah-Delhi 'bi-weekly air-conditioned vestibuled' express and was extended to Amritsar on certain days of the week, a few years later. By 1967, a new Deluxe via Patna was introduced. As of 1975, The tri-weekly 81/82 via Gaya was running till Amritsar once a week, and the bi-weekly 103/104 via Patna was running to Amritsar once a week.
Sometime after the frequency of the Deluxe via Patna was increased to 4 days a week in 1989, the Deluxe started terminating at Delhi daily and in the vacant slots, the Paschim express was extended to Amritsar on a daily basis.
Sometime after the frequency of the Deluxe via Patna was increased to 4 days a week in 1989, the Deluxe started terminating at Delhi daily and in the vacant slots, the Paschim express was extended to Amritsar on a daily basis.
So I was mistaken, at its peak IR had five classes including AC First Class from 1937 to the year Inter Class was abolished (I dont know which year). Also Inter class was between second class and third class and not as I had written. Some one else should confirm about Inter Class and its abolition