1. The Stockholm and Darlington Railway" (1825) is recognised as the starting of railway age 2. on 16th. April 1853, when the first train ran from Bombay to Thana, a distance of 21 miles(33.81 Km. Following are the some of the important Indian Railway Facts 1:- The total distance covered by the 14,300 trains on the Indian Railways everyday, equals three & half times the distance to moon 2:- The first train on Indian soil ran between Bombay and Thane on the 16th of April 1853 3:- IR has about 63,028 route kms. of track 4:- IR employs about 1.55 million people 5:- It carries over 13 million passengers & 1.3 million tones of freight everyday 6:- It runs about 14,300 trains daily 7:- IR has about 7,000 railway stations 8:- The longest platform in the world is at Kharagpur and is 2,733 ft. in length 9:- Nehru Setu on Sone River is the longest Railway bridge 10:- 42 Railway companies operated in the country before independence 11:- Electric Locomotives are manufactured at Chittaranjan Locomotive Works, Chittaranjan 12:- Coaches are manufactured at ICF/Chennai, RCF/Kapurthala and BEML/Bangaluru 14:- The national Rail Museum at New Delhi was set-up in 1977 15:- People Employed in Indian Railway are about 1.6 million 16:- Stations across State Lines are Navapur (Maharashtra and Gujarat) and Bhawani Mandi (Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan) 17:- 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
Posted on: Sun, 01 Sep 2013 10:37:23 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015