A wonderful piece of not just railway history, but social history. Separate trains for first and second class--no mixing of the gentry and the hoi polloi... Domestic servants only get third class. Regardless of first or second class, you get powerful fans, electric light (the return train traveled at night), a ladies boudoir, private dressing rooms and a bath.
G.I.P. stood for the Great Indian Peninsula Railway which was India's first railway, the original 21 mile (33.8 km) section opening in 1853 between Bombay (Mumbai) and Tannah (Thane). Poona (Pune) is about 150 km or 92 miles from Bombay. On 1 July 1925 the G.I.P. management was taken over by the Government and on 5 November 1951 it was incorporated into the Central Railway.
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