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Formed in 1849at the urging of the then Governor, Lord Dalhousie, the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIPR) ran the first passenger train in India on 16 April 1853, when a train, with 14 railway carriages and 400 guests, left [[Bombay]] bound for Thane, hauled by three locomotives: ''Sindh, Sultan,'' and ''Sahib''. The 20 mile journey took an hour and fifteen minutes over the first section of the GIPR to be opened.  Like most of the early railways in India, the GIPR was a British company, registered in London, privately owned and financed, operating under license and guarantee from the (British) Board of Control in India. When, in 1871, the GIPR eventually reached Allahabad and linked to the [[East India Railway]], it completed Dalhousie’s dream of a Bombay-Calcutta route.