Some Facts about Indian Railway :- 1. First proposal------Madras 1832 2. Founded--------On April 16th, 1853, when a train with 14 railway carriages and 400 guests left Bombays Bori Bunder for Thane. 3. Track gauge------1676 mm; 1000 mm; 762 mm; 610 mm 4. Electrification--------21,500 km 5. Length------65,000 km 6. Headquarter-----New Delhi, India 7. Stations-------7000 to 8000 8. Nationalization-----1951 9. First Railway Bridge-------Dapoorie Viaduct on the Mumbai-Thane route 10. First Rail Tunnel-------Parsik Tunnel 11. First Underground Railway-------Calcutta Metro 12. Normal length of a passenger train------24 coaches 13. First Computerized Reservation-------New Delhi (1986) 14. Fastest Train-------India New Delhi-Bhopal Shatabdi Express is the fastest train in India (runs at a speed up to 150 Km/ph) 15. First electric train-------Ran between Bombays Victoria Terminus and Kurla along the Harbour Line of CR, on February 3, 1925, a distance of 9.5 miles 16. Shortest Station Name-------Ib, near Jharsuguda in Odisha and Od, near Anand in Gujarat 17. Longest Station Name------Venka tanarasimharajuvariipeta on the Arakkonam-Renigunta section near Chennai 18. Oldest Station------Chhatrapati ShivajiTerminus 19. Oldest trains still running------Bangalore Mail has been running in various guises since 1864 20. Highest railway station-----Ghoom 21. Oldest running dining car------The Bombay–Pune Deccan Queen 22. Busiest Railway Station------Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 23. Longest Run (Time)-------Vivek Express from Dibrugarh to Kanyakumari travels a distance of 4273 24. Shortest Run-----Route between Nagpur and Ajni (3km) 25. Longest Run for Daily Train-----Kerala Express (3054 km in 42.5 hrs) 26. Longest Non-Stop Run (Distance)----- Trivandrum Rajdhani covering 528 km 27. Longest Railway Platform------Kharagpur (2,733 ft in length) 28. Longest Railway Bridge-------Rail link between Idapalli railway station and ICTT, 4.62km 29. Tallest bridge------The Ghambir Khad bridge between Jammu Tawi and Udhampur is 77m tall. 30. Longest Tunnel-----Karbude Tunnel of the Konkan Railway (6.5 km) 31. Oldest Preserved Locomotive------Fairy Queen (1855), still in working order 32. Daily Runs-----About 10,000 trains 33. Daily Carries-----More than 11 million passengers & 1 million tonnes of freight 34. Railway Station with all the Three Gauges------Siliguri Railway Station 35. People Employed-------About 1.6 million people, fourth largest employer in World 36. Train with Maximum Number of Halts-----Howrah-Amritsar Express (115 halts) 37. Stations across State Lines------Navapur (Maharashtra and Gujarat), Bhawani Mandi (Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan) 38. Northernmost railway station------Baramulla in Jammu and Kashmir 39. Western most station------Naliya near Bhuj in Gujarat 40. Southernmost railway station-----Kanyakumari 41. East most railway station------Ledo on branch line from Tinsukia 42. Least punctual train-------Guwahati-Trivandrum Express is said to be the most unreliable long-distance train in the country. The charted journey time is 65 hours and 5 minutes, but the average delay on a trip is about 10-12 hours. 43. Longest non-stop travel/ Trains with most stops------Trivandrum - H. Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express travels the 528km stretch between Vadodara and Kota non-stop 44. First electric locomotive-------1908 45. UNESCO World Heritage Sites------Chat rapati Shivaji Terminus and the Mountain Railways of ( Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, a narrow gauge railway in West Bengal) 46. First double Decker train------Flying Rani introduced in 2005 47. Largest railway complex in India-----Howrah Station 48. Train crosses the largest number of states------Navyug express between Mangalore and Jammu Tawi 49. Train crossed maximum number of zones------Ernakulam-Barauni 50. The largest distance entirely in one state------Kolhapur-Gondia Maharashtra Exp, 51. Shortest distance between stations-------Safilguda and ayanand Nagar stations on the Secunderabad, 170m apart.
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