Tuesday 16 December 2014
- The total distance covered by the
14,300 trains on the Indian Railways everyday, equals three & half
times the distance to moon
- The first train on Indian soil ran
between Bombay and Thane on the 16th of April 1853
- IR has about 63,028 route kms. of
track
- IR employs about 1.55 million
people
- It carries over 13 million
passengers & 1.3 million tones of freight everyday
- It runs about 14,300 trains daily
- IR has about 7,000 railway
stations
- The longest platform in the world
is at Kharagpur and is 2,733 ft. in length
- Nehru Setu on Sone River is the
longest Railway bridge
- 42 Railway companies operated in
the country before independence
- Electric Locomotives are
manufactured at Chittaranjan Locomotive Works, Chittaranjan
- Coaches are manufactured at
ICF/Chennai, RCF/Kapurthala and BEML/Bangaluru
- The national Rail Museum at New
Delhi was set-up in 1977
- People Employed in Indian Railway
are about 1.6 million
- Stations across State Lines are
Navapur (Maharashtra and Gujarat) and Bhawani Mandi (Madhya Pradesh and
Rajasthan)
- Classes of travel on Indian
Railway: Ist AC, 2nd AC, 3rd AC, AC Chair Car IInd sleeper & IInd
ordinary
- Railway Station with all the Three
Gauges is Siliguri Railway Station
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First Passenger Train
Ran On
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16th April 1853
(between Bombay to Thane)
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First Railway Bridge
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Dapoorie Viaduct on the
Mumbai-Thane route
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First Rail Tunnel
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Parsik Tunnel
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First Ghats Covered by
the Rail lines
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Thal and Bhore Ghats
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First Underground
Railway
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Calcutta METRO
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First Computerized
Reservation System started in
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New Delhi (1986)
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First Electric Train
ran on
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3rd Feb' 1925 (between
Bombay VT and Kurla)
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Toilets on Trains were
introduced in
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1891 (1st Class) &
1907 (lower classes)
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Shortest Station Name
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Ib (Orissa)
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Longest Station Name
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Sri
Venkatanarasimharajuvariapeta (Tamil Nadu)
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Busiest Railway Station
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Lucknow (64 trains
everyday)
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Longest Run (Time)
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Vivek Express (3715 km
in Approx 71 hrs)
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Shortest Run
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Route between Nagpur to
Ajni (3km)
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Longest Run for Daily
Train
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Kerala Express (3054 km
in 42.5 hrs)
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Longest Non-Stop Run
(Distance)
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Trivandrum Rajdhani
(528 km in 6.5 hrs)
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Longest Railway
Platform in the World
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Kharagpur (2,733 ft in
length)
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Longest Railway Bridge
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Nehru Setu on Sone
River (10044ft in length)
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Longest Tunnel
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Karbude On Konkan
Railway between Monkey hill & Khandala (6.5 km)
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Oldest Preserved
Locomotive
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Fairy Queen (1855),
still in working order
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Indian Railway's
Fastest Train
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Bhopal-Shatabdi (runs
at a speed up to 140 Km/ph)
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Train with Maximum
Number of Halts
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Howrah-Amritsar Express
(115 halts)
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