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Salient Features of Indian Railways

 

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The first train on Indian soil ran between Bombay to thane on the 16th of April, 1853
 

 

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IR has about 63000 route kms of track
   

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 IR employs about 1.6 million people
   

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 IR carries over 13 million passengers & 1.2 million tonnes of freight every day
   

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 IR runs about 12,000 trains daily
   

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 IR has nearly 8,000 Railway stations
   

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 The longest journey on the IR is from Jammu Tawi to Kanyakumari, a distance of about 3,751 kms. covered by Himsagar Express in about 70 hrs.
   

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 The longest railway platform in the world is at kharagpur & is 2,733 ft. in length.
   

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 NEHRU SETU on river Sone is the longest railway bridge
   

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 The longest tunnel is on Konkan Railway which is 6.5 km in length.
   

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 Kolkatta METRO is the 1st and only underground railway system in India
   

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 Computerised Reservation System started at Delhi in 1986.
   

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 IR's first electric train ran on 3rd February, 1925 between Bombay VT - Kurla
   

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 Toilets on trains were introduced in 1891 in 1st class & in 1907 in lower classes.
   

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 42 railway companies operated in the country before independence.
   

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 IR is presently divided into 16 Zonal Railways.
   

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 Fairy Queen (1855) is the oldest preserved locomotive in working order.
   

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 The manufacture of steam locomotives in country stopped in 1972.
   

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 Diesels locomotives are manufactured at DLW, Varanasi
   

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 Electric locomotives are manufactured at CLW, Chittaranjan.
   

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 Coaches are manufactured at ICF/Madras, RCF/Kapurthala & BEML/Bangalore.
   

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 IR's fastest train is the Bhopal Shatabdi which runs at a speed upto 140 kmph.
   

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 Ist AC, 2nd AC, 3rd AC, AC Exec. Chair Car, AC Chair Car, First Class, IInd Sleeper & IInd ordinary are the various classes of travel on the IR.
   

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 IR's only Rack & Pinion system type of line is from Mettupalaiyam to Coonoor.
   

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 The National Rail Museum at New Delhi was set up in 1977.
   

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 Darjeeling Himalayan Railway has been bestowed the status of a 'World Heritage Site'.
   

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 The total distance covered by the 12 thousand trains on the INDIAN RAILWAYS every day, equals three & a half time the distance to moon.   
   

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 The second largest railway network in the world and the largest civilian organisation under a single management.

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