Please dont call me sir. Play your Malabar/MAQ Mail game without deliberately screwing Kalka Mail Historical Fact as 1/2 Mail since 1861 (shamelessly against a Passenger Service). Its about oldest train existence not Route (even MAS-MAQ route-wise lagged behind HWH-Kalka). Its a bet you did to tag Pass as Exp/Mail whose final Stretch took 45 Years to complete in 1907. You update Wiki & IRI with Passenger service for 40 years & guise it as Mail which never exist until 1907 (or 1912)!!
Gujrat Mail didnt exist until Golden Bridge was ready. You gave year 3 years early to Golden Bridge Commission Year & till then 3 Different Passenger plus Nerbudda Ferry. But you dont tell yourself until it was pointed out....
more... So far MAS-MAQ Mail cant defend to be even 5th or 6th in the list. I wonder when you will change Wiki & IRI Page for Kalka Mail (1861)!! You gave example of Punjab Mail having different number in NR/CR (its to avoid any Number Clash with EIR Train at NR). But still its name & number remain unique in CR/NR. 10 Mail show up in 1912 is written as 13 Malabar Express in 1935 then 1944 its Mangalore Express with some other Number & then 1960 we see Mangalore Mail. Dont know which train was taken by whom past 1907 & interestingly you believe and wish other believe it to be 1862!!?? its existence in between 1907-1912 is Dismall, Passenger show up in MAS-Beypore in 1968 & you latch prestige over correct info just coz its your screen??