The distance cut by 14,300 railway trains in the country is three-and-a-half times the distance between the earth and the moon.
The country's first railway-ran between Mumbai and Thane on 16th April 1853. Total length of Indian Railways: 63,028 km
Total number of employees (employment available) - 15.5 lakh carry 130 lakh passengers and 13 lakh tonnes of goods daily; Number of stations - around 7000
The biggest plot in the world- Kharagpur- 2733 feet long. The largest railway bridge in the River Niru Nehru Setu river
In the pre-independence period, there were 42 different railway companies operating in the country.
Electricity-powered engines manufacturing plant at Chittaranjan. Coaches in Chennai, Kapurthala and Bangalore
Establishment of National Railway Museum in New Delhi in 1977. The only station in the country with all three gauge trains - Siliguri
First Railway Pool - Dapuri Viaduct on Mumbai-Thane Road The first tunnel - Parsik tunnel
First Railway Ghat road- Thal and Bor Ghat. First Underground Railway - Kolkata Metro
The first computerized reservation system - New Delhi - started in 1986. The first electric train- 3 February 1925, ran between Mumbai VT to Kurla.
Toilet facility - in 1891 in first class coaches, in the lower classes in the year 1907
The smallest name of the station - IB (Orissa) - The largest name station - Shri Venkata Narsingh Raju Varipeta (Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta) (in Andhra Pradesh, on the border of Tamil Nadu)
Busy station- Lucknow- 64 trains per day The shortest route - Nagpur to Ajni - 3 km
The longest route running every day - Kerala Express - in 42.5 hours 3054 km
The highest cut-off distance to Vinathamba- Trivandrum Capital- 528 km in 6.5 hours
The longest tunnel - the 6.5 km Karabda tunnel near Ratnagiri
The oldest saved engine - Ferry Queen 1855- Still usable.
The fastest train in the country - Bhopal Shatabdi - Tashi 140 km
Most stop train- Howrah-Amritsar Express - 115 stops
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