Prayas: 50 facts of Indian Railway by Somdeb Karmarkar

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Indian Railway is an Indian state-owned enterprise, owned and
operated by the Government of India through the Ministry of
Railways. It has presently seventeen zones.

New Delhi-Bhopal Shatabdi Express is the fastest train in India.
The all air-conditioned superfast train clocks a maximum
speed of 150km/h on the Faridabad-Agra section

Ooty Nilgiri Passenger which runs at a speed of 10kmph, 15
times slower than fastest running train. Since this train runs in
hilly region there are speed limits to comply.

Vivek Express from Dibrugarh to Kanyakumari travels a
distance of 4273 km, making it the longest run in terms of total
time and distance in Indian Railways.

Scheduled services between Nagpur and Ajni stations situated
just 3km from each other – primarily meant for crew to travel
from Nagpur station to the workshop at Ajni.

Trivandrum – H. Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express travels the 528
km stretch between Vadodara and Kota non-stop.

Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta on the Arakkonam-Renigunta
section near Chennai.

Ib, near Jharsuguda in Odisha and Od, near Anand in Gujarat.

The record for maximum number of stops by an Express/Mail
train is held by Howrah – Amritsar Express 115 halts

Guwahati-Trivandrum Express is said to be the most unreliable
long-distance train in the country. The charted journey time is
65 hours and 5 minutes, but the average delay on a trip is
about 10-12 hours.

Srirampur and Belapur are two different stations in
Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra which are both at the
same location on the railway route but on opposite sides of
the track.

Electric locomotive WAG-9 used for hauling heavy freight rakes
is the most powerful locomotive in Indian Railways’ fleet. The
6,350 horsepower beast is homed at Gomoh, Ajni, Lallaguda,
Tughlakabad and Bhilai.

Northernmost railway station is Baramulla in Jammu and
Kashmir. Westernmost is Naliya near Bhuj in Gujarat.
Southernmost railway station is Kanyakumari, while the last
station on the east of India is Ledo on branch line from
Tinsukia.

Mathura junction with 7 routes- Broad Gauge (BG) line to Agra Cantt, BG
line to Bharatpur, BG line to Alwar, BG line to Delhi, Metre Gauge (MG) line
to Achnera, MG line to Vrindavan and MG line to Hathras, Kasganj. Six
route junction – Bhatinda. Five route junctions – Lucknow, Guntakal, Katni,
Varanasi, Kanpur Central, Villupuram, Dabhoi, and Nagpur.

Seven parallel tracks between Bandra Terminus and Andheri –
10km. Siliguri station on NFR holds the distinction of having
three different gauges present.

Lucknow, with 64 trains per day.

Indian Railways owns the longest railway platform in the world
at Kharagpur (West Bengal) with a length of 2,733 ft (1072.5
m) in length

Indian Railways still has the oldest preserved locomotive in working order,
the Fairy Queen which was made way back in 1855. It is the oldest
functioning steam engine in the world, which finds a place in the
Guinness Book of World Records and got Heritage Award at the
International Tourist Bureau, Berlin in March 2000.

The first railroad was constructed by two Indians (Jamsetjee
Jeejeebhoy and Jaganath Shunkerseth) and not the British

Indian Railways is the world’s ninth largest commercial or
utility employer, by number of employees, with over 1.4
million employees. It is also the India’s largest employer

Though it is commonly believed, India doesn’t have the largest railway network
in the World. India comes fourth with approx. 64,000 km of railroad after US,
Russia, and China. If the tracks were to be laid out from one point to another
around the equator, it would circle it one-and-a-half times.

The manufacture of steam locomotives in the country was
stopped in 1972

The total distance covered by the 14,300 trains daily on the
Indian Railways daily equals three & half times the distance to
moon.

Toilets on trains were first introduced in 1891 in 1st class and
in 1907 in lower classes

Air Cooling was first introduced in 1st class coaches in 1874 in
Great Indian Peninsular Railway

The country’s longest tunnel is Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel 11.215 km that
was completed in December 2012 in Jammu and Kashmir. The tunnel is yet
to become functional railway route. Karbude on Konkan Railways, which is
6.5 km in length previously held the title for the longest tunnel in India.

First Underground Railway that was opened for public use was
Calcutta Metro.

First Reservation through the computer System commenced in
New Delhi in the year 1986.

First Electric coach ran on the 3rd February 1925 between
Bombay VT and Kurla stations

Indians were not allowed to board the Palace on Wheels
luxury train for quite a while when it was launched on
Republic Day of 1982

In the Bihar train disaster on June 6, 1981, a passenger train carrying 800 or
more passengers between Mansi and Saharsa, derailed and plunged into
the river Bagmati while it was crossing a bridge

The Indian Railways (IR) carries over 25 million passengers daily which is
perhaps more than the entire population of Australia, New Zealand and
Tasmania put together. Annually Indian Railways ferries 7.2 billion
passengers (nearly 6x India’s current population).

Indian Railways runs as many as 19,000 trains every day. Some
12,000 trains are for passengers and 7,000 for freight.

The whole network has 7,083 stations

Indian Railways has had an operation span of nearly 170 years.

Even after recent hike, fares on long distance journeys on the IR can be
considered cheapest in the world. For instance, 1,500 km journey on Delhi-
Kolkata route by Kalka Mail costs around Rs 250. A similar journey would
cost 10x more on any budget train in Europe which boasts of strong rail
transport.

Mumbai’s local trains are amongst the world’s few to have 15
coaches. Shanghai’s local trains come close with 12 coaches.

CST in Mumbai caters to 33 million passengers annually and is
the only terminus in the world to be listed as a monument of
global heritage by UNESCO.

Ever since its origin in 1853, the rail service in India never
turned back making it one of the oldest track in the world.

Indian Railways collected Rs.581 Crore in fines+charges on
ticketless travel in during the financial year 2011-12.

The National Rail Museum in Delhi set up in 1977 is a one of the unique museums
in Asia. Sprawled over an area of 11 acres the museum has collections like
antique steam engines, locomotives, models, carriages, photographs among
other things. There are live exhibits as well as working and non-working models.
The added attraction is the toy train which runs across the museum.

Vembanad Rail Bridge 4.62 km in length in the state of Kerala connects
connecting Edappally and Vallarpadam in Kochi. It is the longest rail bridge in
India and it is dedicated solely for freight.

India’s first sea bridge, the Pamban Bridge is a cantilever bridge on
the Palk Strait. It connects Rameswaram on Pamban Island (Tamil
Nadu) to mainland India.

Saraighat Bridge (1,492 m) is the first rail-cum-road bridge
constructed over the Brahmaputra River in Guwahati, Assam. It was
opened to passenger traffic in June 1963.

Dapoorie Viaduct (1854) on the Mumbai-Thane route is the first
railway bridge in India

Ghum railway station of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway is the
highest railway station in India. It is situated at an altitude of 2,258
metres (7,407 ft)

The world’s highest rail bridge being constructed over Chenab river in Jammu & Kashmir’s
Reasi district (Chenab Bridge) will be ready by December, 2015. Coming up at Kauri, it will
be 359 meters (1,180 feet) above the riverbed (five times the height of Qutub Minar and
35 metres taller than Eiffel Tower)

Parsik Tunnel (1865) is India’s first rail tunnel.

Delhi station entered Guinness book of world records for having the
world’s largest route relay interlocking system.

Indian Railways have approximately 10.65 lakh acre of land. About 90 per cent of
this land is under Railway’s operational and allied usages. The total vacant land,
at present is about 1.13 lakh acre.

The Mumbai–Pune Deccan Queen has the oldest running dining car
in Indian Railways.

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