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Could you tell me how long it would take for someone to travel from England to Calcutta by steamship in the mid 1880s?

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Hello Jane.
About a month via the Suez Canal. Unless you wanted specifically to go to Calcutta and the north east of India you would disembark at the first port of call - Bombay, from where the rail network would take you almost anywhere in the country. Bomabay could be reached in three weeks in the 1880s.
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I have a good basic knowledge of British political history, but my speciality is the Kings and Queens of England and Scotland from 927 AD. Please no social history questions, it's not my strong point and I'm unlikely to answer them.

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