Indian Railway

• The total distance covered by the 14,300 trains on the Indian Railways every day, equals three & half times the distance to moon.
• The first train in India ran on 16^th April 1853 from Bombay to Thane.

• Indian Railways is one of the world's largest railway networks, with 115,000 kms of tracks and a route of 65,000 kms.
• Indian Railways has about 7,000 railway stations. 
• The longest platform in the world is at Kharagpur and is 2,733 ft. in length
• 42 Railway companies operated in the country before independence. 
• The national Rail Museum at New Delhi was set-up in 1977.

• Indian Railway is constructing the highest rail bridge over Chenab, in J&K. 
• Loco-pilots (train drivers) are paid more than an average software engineer. 
• No loco-pilot has abandoned the train even in the face of certain death. 
• The Indian Railways website gets close to 12 Lakh hits per minute. 
• If the tracks of Indian railways were to be laid out, they would circle the earth almost 1.5 times. 

• The station with the longest name is Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta. 
• Most unreliable train in Indian Railways is Guwahati-Trivandrum Express. It is late on an average by ten to twelve hours. 
• The station with the smallest name is called ‘IB ’: It’s in Odisha. 
• The longest running train covers a distance of 4273 km between Dibrugarh and Kanyakumari: It’s called the Vivek Express. 

• The shortest distance covered between two successive stations is 3 kilometers. It’s between the Nagpur and Ajni station. 
• Lucknow is the busiest junction in the nation: 64 trains come in and move out, every day. 
• The first railroad was constructed by two Indians – Jaganath Shunkerseth and Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy. 
• Metupalayam Ooty Nilgiri Passenger train is the slowest train in India. It runs at a speed of 10 kmph. 

• Indian Railways is a monopoly. It is owned by the government. In 1986, 
• Indian Railways started its first computerized reservation in New Delhi.