Talk:Netaji Express

Mailing Significance section
This section has been removed (and pasted below) as it needs editing and re-writing. The acronyms are incomprehensible to readers, info regarding personnel is irrelevant (and easily outdated), and it needs editing for grammar and language (eg. removal of WP:Weasel terms). I've put it here in the hope that someone can fix it before I can get around to doing so. In the meantime, please do not put this back onto the page as it stands. Plutonium27 (talk) 11:08, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

''Kalka Mail is the primary & most important Mail Train running in the Eastern Corridor of the country.The train has operational RMS sections b/w Chandigarh Delhi,Delhi Allahabad,Allahabad Gaya(Sr Supdt RMS 'A' Div)& Gaya Howrah(Sr Supdt RMS 'C' Div) & half of a GS coach is allotted for the RMS operations. At Howrah end the trailing Mail bags are handed over to Mail Agent Howrah RMS who forwards the R Bags to MA Calcutta RMS & ordinary & Speed Bags to MA Kolkata AP TMO.From KolAPTMO these bags are sorted & forwarding bags are sent to other RMS.Kalka Mail is very important of its class because it passes through certain National Sorting Hubs of SpeedPost which don't have Airport viz Amballa,Karnal,Ghaziabad,Agra(Tundla),Kanpur,Allahabad,Varanasi(MughalSarai),Gaya,Dhanbad,Barddhaman.So for quick disposal of these bags they are handed over to either Delhi/Kolkata for quick air connectivity.''

Not 'the longest train'
Kalka mail is not the longest train. It has 24 coaches. But many others including Tamil Nadu Express have 24 coaches too.

--Unnikn (talk) 03:03, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

Since 1856
I'm not sure we can say that it has been running since 1856. A couple of reasons. First, the evidence relies on timetables that merely say "Night mail". We would have to conclude that this refers to the same train which would be original research. Second, since the train ran only a short distance, it wasn't really the train that connected Calcutta to the summer capital at Simla. This is unlike the Imperial Mail or the Frontier Mail which actually ran their full length. --RegentsPark (comment) 12:22, 1 October 2021 (UTC)