Indian Railways is one of the world's biggest railways
arrange comprises of cargo, travelers, visitor, Suburban rail frameworks, toy
train and extravagance trains. Indian Railways (IR) is a State possessed
national transporter, and in charge of rail transport in India. It is the
fourth biggest railroad organizes on the planet including 119,630 kilometers
(74,330 mi) of aggregate track and 92,081 km (57,216 mi) of running track over
a course of 66,687 km (41,437 mi) with 7,216 stations toward the finish of
2015-16. We bring you some interesting facts about the Indian Railways.
Unknown Facts about Indian Railways
There are many interesting facts we must known about Indian
Railways -
1. Indian Railways is the largest rail network in Asia and the
world’s second largest.
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| Indian Railways |
2. The first train in India ran between Bombay to Thane on the
16th April 1853.
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| First Train of Indian Railways |
3. Bholu the guard elephant is the mascot of Indian Railways.
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| Mascot of Indian Railways |
4. The world’s longest railway platform is in Gorakhpur. It
total of 1.366 Kms.
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| World’s longest railway platform |
5. The Rajdhani Express trains get the highest priority on the
Indian railway network.
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| Rajdhani Express |
6. The fastest train of India is New Delhi – Bhopal Shatabdi
Express 150 Kmph and with 10 Kmph speed the Mettupalayam - Ooty Nilgiri
Passenger Train is the slowest among all trains.
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| Fastest and Slowest Train of India |
7. Longest route train is Vivek Express from Dibrugarh to
Kanyakumari which covers 4,273 Kms and with just 3 Kms the shortest route is
between Nagpur station to Ajni workshop.
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| Longest Train Route of India |
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| Shortest Train Route of India |
8. The Maharaja Express is the most expensive luxury train in
India.
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| The Maharaja Express |
9. The total distance covered by Indian Railways daily equals
three and half times the distance to the Moon.
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| Total distance covered by Indian Railways |
10. No loco-pilot has sudden stops the train even in the face of
certain death.
11. The New Delhi Railway Station has the world’s largest Route
Relay Interlocking System.
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| World’s largest Route Relay Interlocking System |
12. The Indian Railways website gets close to 12 Lakh hits per
minute.
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| Indian Railways website |
13. The Howrah – Amritsar Express has 115 stops and record the
maximum for an Express train whereas Trivandrum – Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express
has only 2 stops.
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| Maximum Stops in Indian Railways |
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| Minimum Stops in Indian Railways |
14. If the tracks of Indian Railways were to be laid out, they
would cover the earth almost one and half times.
15. After Indian Railways completed about 50 years the
administration decided to get toilet to train passengers and it’s effected from
1909.
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| Letter for toilet |
16. The longest name of
any Indian railway station on Arakkonam-Renigunta section near Chennai is
Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta 28 letters and with 2 letters two stations are
shortest name IB, near Jharsuguda in Odisha and OD, near Umreth, Anand in
Gujarat.
17. Indian Railways started its first computerized reservation
Service at New Delhi in 1986.
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| Indian Railways Reservation Service |
18. If the tracks of Indian railways were to be laid out, they
would round the earth almost 1.5 times.
19. India’s first Double Decker train run on September 19, 2012
is Ahmedabad - Mumbai Central Double Decker Express.
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| India’s first Double Decker train |
20. Two stations on one location which is Srirampur and Belapur
stations in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district, at the same location on the
railway route but on opposite directions of the track.
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| Two stations on one location |
21. Indian Railways carry more than 30 million passengers every
day, more than the total population of Australia.
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| Waiting for Train |
22. Indian Railways is the world’s 7th largest employer with over
1.54 million employees.
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| World’s 7th largest employer - Indian Railways |
23. Navapur Railway Station bestrides two states. One half of it
is in Maharashtra and the other half in Gujarat.
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| One Station in Two States, Indian Railways |
