Paris to Bombay
How long did it take to travel from Paris to Bombay in the 1920s and 1930s, and what did it cost? In 1925: 21 days door to door, 10 350 fr. 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
- Paris → Marseille (by rail, about 13 h 12, estimate)
- Embarkation
- Paris
- Sailing
- Thursday 12 March 1925
- Steamer
- Train Azur · Trains de Luxe · Calais – Paris – Marseilles – Nice
- Calls
- Marseille, Port-Saïd
- via
- le canal de Suez et Aden
- le canal de Suez transit
- le canal de Suez transit, about 24 h
- Arrival
- Bombay, Thursday 2 April 1925
- Door to door
- 21 days
- Fare · First Class
- 10 350 fr.
- Fare · Second Class
- 6 650 fr.
Transbordement à Marseille sur la O. & I. Mail
The journey in 1933
- Getting to the port
- Delhi → Bombay (by rail, about 24 h, estimate)
- Embarkation
- Paris
- Sailing
- Saturday 16 September 1933
- Steamer
- City of Glasgow · Empire Air Routes · London – Paris – Genoa – Naples – Piraeus – Alexandria – Baghdad – Basra – Karachi
- Calls
- Genoa, Naples, Piraeus, Alexandria, Baghdad, Basra, Karachi
- Night stops
- Genoa, Piraeus, Alexandria, Baghdad
- via
- Lyons and Marseilles, Corfu, Tobruk, Gaza and Rutbah, Bushire, Jask and Gwadar
- Arrival
- Bombay, Monday 25 September 1933
- Door to door
- 9 days
- Fare · Single class
- £180
Transfer at Karachi to the Empire Air Routes
Open the Passage atlas — MGS Toolbox