London to Baghdad
How long did it take to travel from London to Baghdad in the 1920s and 1930s, and what did it cost? In 1933: 3 days door to door, £120 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 1933
- Embarkation
- London
- Sailing
- Saturday 16 September 1933
- Steamer
- City of Glasgow · Empire Air Routes · London – Paris – Genoa – Naples – Piraeus – Alexandria – Baghdad – Basra – Karachi
- Calls
- Paris, Genoa, Naples, Piraeus, Alexandria
- Night stops
- Genoa, Piraeus, Alexandria
- via
- Lyons and Marseilles, Corfu, Tobruk, Gaza and Rutbah
- Arrival
- Baghdad, Tuesday 19 September 1933
- Door to door
- 3 days
- Fare · Single class
- £120
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