London to Cairo
How long did it take to travel from London to Cairo in the 1920s and 1930s, and what did it cost? In 1925: 9 days door to door, £45 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
- London → Southampton (by rail, about 2 h, estimate); Port Said → Cairo (by rail, about 4 h 30, estimate)
- Embarkation
- Southampton
- Sailing
- Saturday 14 March 1925
- Steamer
- S.S. Canopus · Southern Cross Line · Southampton – Port Said – Colombo – Sydney
- via
- Gibraltar and Malta
- Arrival
- Cairo, Monday 23 March 1925
- Door to door
- 9 days
- Fare · First Class
- £45
- Fare · Third Class
- £13
The journey in 1933
- Getting to the port
- Alexandria → Cairo (by rail, about 3 h 30, estimate)
- 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
- Night stops
- Genoa, Piraeus
- via
- Lyons and Marseilles, Corfu, Tobruk
- Arrival
- Cairo, Monday 18 September 1933
- Door to door
- 3 days
- Fare · Single class
- £120
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