Cairo to Bombay
How long did it take to travel from Cairo to Bombay in the 1920s and 1930s, and what did it cost? In 1925: 9 days door to door, £54 in first class.
Passage computes it for Call of Cthulhu and any 1920s or 1930s tabletop campaign: pick two places and a date, and print the ticket the purser's clerk would have written.
The journey in 1925
- Getting to the port
- Cairo → Port Said (by rail, about 4 h 30, estimate)
- Embarkation
- Port Said
- Sailing
- Monday 16 March 1925
- Steamer
- R.M.S. Cauvery · O. & I. Mail · Southampton – Marseilles – Port Said – Bombay
- via
- the Suez Canal and Aden
- the Suez Canal transit
- the Suez Canal transit, about 24 h
- Arrival
- Bombay, Wednesday 25 March 1925
- Door to door
- 9 days
- Fare · First Class
- £54
- Fare · Second Class
- £33 10s.
The journey in 1933
- Getting to the port
- Delhi → Bombay (by rail, about 24 h, estimate)
- Embarkation
- Cairo
- Sailing
- Friday 15 September 1933
- Steamer
- Hannibal · Empire Air Routes · Alexandria – Cairo – Khartoum – Nairobi – Johannesburg – Cape Town
- Calls
- Alexandria, Baghdad, Karachi, Calcutta
- Night stops
- Baghdad, Karachi
- via
- Gaza, Basra and Jask, Jodhpur and Allahabad
- Arrival
- Bombay, Sunday 24 September 1933
- Door to door
- 10 days
- Fare · Single class
- £158
Transfer at Alexandria to the Oranje Air Transfer at Calcutta to the Empire Air Routes
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