[HM:254540] Indian Railway Facts

Indian Railway Facts Following are the some of the important Indian Railway Facts 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 First Passenger Train Ran On: 16th April 1853 (between Bombay to Thane) First Railway Bridge: Dapoorie Viaduct on the Mumbai-Thane route First Rail Tunnel: Parsik Tunnel First Ghats Covered by Rail Lines: Thal and Bhore Ghats First Underground Railway: Calcutta METRO First Computerized Reservation System Started In: New Delhi (1986) First Electric Train Ran On: 3rd Feb' 1925 (between Bombay VT and Kurla) Toilets on Trains Introduced In: 1891 (1st Class) & 1907 (lower classes) Shortest Station Name: Ib (Orissa) Longest Station Name: Sri Venkatanarasimharajuvariapeta (Tamil Nadu) Busiest Railway Station: Lucknow (64 trains everyday) Longest Run (Time): Himsagar Express (3751 km in 74 hrs and 55 min) Shortest Run: Route between Nagpur and Ajni (3km) Longest Run for Daily Train: Kerala Express (3054 km in 42.5 hrs) Longest Non-Stop Run (Distance): Trivandrum Rajdhani (528 km in 6.5 hrs) Longest Railway Platform in the World: Kharagpur (2,733 ft in length) Longest Railway Bridge: Nehru Setu on Sone River (10044ft in length) Longest Tunnel: Karbude Tunnel of the Konkan Railway (6.5 km) Oldest Preserved Locomotive: Fairy Queen (1855), still in working order Gauges of Track: 4 Gauges; BG (5'6"), MG (1 metre), NG (2) IR Daily Carries: More than 11 million passengers & 1 million tonnes of freight IR's Only Line with Rack & Pinion System: From Mettupalayam to Conoor IR's Fastest Train: Bhopal-Shatabdi (runs at a speed up to 140 Km/ph) Railway Station with all the Three Gauges: Siliguri Railway Station Route Kilometers of Track: More than 62,000 kms People Employed in IR: About 1.6 million people Train with Maximum Number of Halts: Howrah-Amritsar Express (115 halts) Trains without Commercial Halts: Sampoorna Kranti Express, Howrah Rajdhani, Bombay Rajdhani, Pragati Express and Pune Shatabdi Stations across State Lines: Navapur (Maharashtra and Gujarat), Bhawani Mandi (Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan)

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