Punjab Mail, India's Oldest Railway Service Completes 109 Years Punjab Mail, India's oldest running passenger train, has completed 109 years and will enter its 110th year tomorrow. | 1 Jun 2021 8:01 AM GMT Punjab Mail, India's oldest running passenger train, has completed 109 years and will enter its 110th year tomorrow. Though passenger train services were suspended from March 22, 2020 to May 1, 2020 during the Covid-19 lockdown, they were gradually resumed as special trains when the lockdown was lifted. The Punjab Mail Special, on the other hand, began its journey with LHB coaches on December 1 last year. The Bombay to Peshawar Punjab Mail's origins are a mystery. The Punjab Mail had her inaugural run out of Ballard Pier Mole station on 1 June 1912, according to a Cost Estimate report from 1911 and a complaint from an upset passenger from October 12, 1912 about the 'late arrival of the train by a few minutes in Delhi.'