Did you know...

• Indian Railways is the largest railway system in the world under a single management.
• The first train on Indian soil ran between Bombay and Thane on April 16, 1853.
• Indian Railways has about 63,028 route kms of track.
• Indian Railways employs about 1.55 million people
• It carries over 13 million passengers & 1.3 million tones of freight everyday. It runs about 14,300 trains daily.
• Indian Railways has about 7,000 railway stations.
• The longest journey on the IR is from Jammu Tawi (North) to Kanya Kumari (South), a distance of about 4,751 kms. covered by Himsagar Express in about 66 hours.
• The longest platform in the world is at Kharagpur and is 2,733 ft. in length.
• India’s first railway bridge is the Dapoorie Viaduct” on the Mumbai-Thane route.
• India’s first Rail Tunnel is Parsik Tunnel.
• Indian Railways' first electric train ran on February 3, 1925, between Bombay VT and Kurla.
• Toilets on trains were introduced in 1891 in 1st class and in 1907 in lower classes.
• 42 Railway companies operated in the country before Independence.
• Fairy Queen (1855) is the oldest locomotive in working order.
• The manufacture of steam locomotives in the country stopped in 1972.
• The first Rajdhani was introduced between Howrah and New Delhi on March 1, 1969.

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