Frontier Mail , a very prestigious train during British times started by B B C I R - Bombay Baroda Central India Railway ).
It ran between Colaba ( Bombay / Mumbai of today ) and Landi Kotal ( Peshawar )in NWFP - North West Frontier Province ( now in Pakistan ).
At Colaba terminus , Frontier Mail's timings coincided with timings of Passenger ships ( P and O - Peninsula and Oriental ) which anchored at Colaba jetty along with Rail terminus of Frontier Mail.
http://www.pandosnco.co.uk/indianmail.html
https://shivendrashukla.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/the-lost-mumbai/frontier-mail-at-ballard-pier/
Passengers ( mostly Britishers ) would disembark from the train and board the Ship gangway ( right adjacent ) to the train and vice versa.One side of platform railway , other side ship anchorage.
After 1947 sea travel gave way to travel by air.
The Railway line between Churchgate Station and Colaba ( in Mumbai ) was removed.
Now the train ( Golden Temple Express ) runs between Amritsar Station and Bombay Central ( Mumbai ).
For Historical clip of Frontier Mail and Khyber Pass , please click :-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HUAkRGSmmg
For more on Frontier Mail , please click :-
http://irfca.org/~shankie/famoustrains/famtrainfrontier.htm
For more on P and O
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Netaji Subhash Chander Bose , during Second World War , escaped to Berlin via Afghanistan. Netaji was under House arrest in his home in Kolkata. Netaji boarded Kalka Mail from Gomoh Station ( near Dhanbad ) . He reached Peshawar in Frontier Mail disguised as a Muslim Insurance Agent.. Netaji must have shifted from Kalka Mail to Frontier Mail either at Saharanpur Station ( UP )or at Ambala Cantt ( now in Haryana ). These two are the prominent two stations on the rail route common to both Kalka Mail and Frontier Mail.
Gomoh Railway Station ( Near Dhanbad - Jharkhand )has been renamed as Netaji Subhash Chander Bose Gomoh Station. Netaji boarded Kalka Mail at Gomoh on 18 January 1941. The Station has , now , Netaji's statues.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomoh
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