- The First Train India Run from Mumbai to Thane in 1853, Distance 34 KM.
- Royapuram station was inaugurated on 28 June 1856 by the then Governor Lord Harris and the railway line was opened for traffic on 1 July 1856.
- The first train, Manufactured by Simpson and Company, Started its journey with 300 people from Royapuram to Wallajabad.
- In 1951 One Unit "The Indian Railways".
- Indian Railways Head Quarter is New Delhi.
- Indian Railways Breadth and Length of the Country over 63,273 Kilometer and 7,025 Stations.
- Indian Railways help in traveling 20 Million People and more than 2 Million tonnes of freight Daily.
- Indian Railways Networks runs Multi-guage are 1. Broad Guage (1.676 mts)
- 2. Meter Guage (1.00 mts) 3. Narrow Gauge (0.672 mts)
- Indian Railways Fastest Train Bhobal Shatabdi in India.It run at a Speed 150 km/hr (93 mph). Between Bhobal Junction to New Delhi (705KMs)
- MRTS- Mass Rapid Transit System ; MRTS is Sub Urban Railways in Chennai,
- Indian Railways Second Largest in Asia.
- Indian Railways is 8th Largest Employer in the World.
- Indian Railways is Fifteenth (15th ) Largest in the World.
- The Dibrugarh - Kanyakumari Vivek Express (Weekly train) is the Longest Route on the Indian Railway Network. It Covers a distance of 4,286 kilometers (2,663mi) and across seven states in India. Running Time is 82.30 hours and 57 Halt across the Route.
- India’s Longest Railway Platform is Gorakpur Railway Station, Uttrapradesh.(1.35 kilometers - 0.84 miles)
Asia’s Largest Tunnel is 6.5 km in Kongan Railway Project
INDIAN
RAILWAYS PRODUCTION UNITS
Sl.
No.
|
Production
Unit
|
Year
of Established
|
Place
|
1
|
Chittaranjan
Locomotive Works
|
26th
January 1950
|
Chittaranjan,
West Bengal
|
2
|
Diesel
Locomotive Works
|
23rd
April 1956
|
Varanasi,
Uttra Pradesh
|
3
|
Integral
Coach Factory
|
1955
(Swiss Collaboration)
|
Perambur,Chennai
|
4
|
Rail
Coach Facatory
|
1986
|
Kapurthala,
Punjab
|
5
|
Rail
wheel Factory
|
1984
|
Yelahanka,
Bangalore
|
6
|
Diesel
Loco Modernisation Works
|
24th
October 1981
|
Patiala,Punjab
|
INDIAN RAILWAYS 17 ZONES
Sl.
No
|
Name of the
Zone
|
Year
of
Established
|
Head
Quarters
|
Route
KM
|
Divisions
|
1
|
Southern Railway | 14th April 1951 | Chennai | 5098 |
1.Chennai
2.Madurai
3.
Tiruchi
4.Salem
5.Palakkad
6.Thiruvanatha-
puram |
2
|
Central Railway | 5thNovember 1951 | Mumbai | 3905 |
1.Bhusawal
2.Puna
3..Mumbai
CST
4.Nagpur
5.Solapur
|
3
|
Western Railway | 5thNovember 1951 | Mumbai | 6182 |
1.Ahmadabad
2.Bhavnagar
3.Mumbai
Central
4..Rajkot
5.Ratlam
6.Vodadara |
4
|
Eastern Railway | 14thApril 1952 | Kolkatta | 2414 |
1.Asansol
2.Howrah
3.Malda
Town
4.Sealdah |
5
|
Northern Railway | 14thApril 1952 | New Delhi | 6968 |
1.
Ambala
2.Firozpur
3.Lucknow
4.Moradabad
5.Delhi |
6
|
North Eastern Railway | 14thApril 1952 | Gorakpur | 3667 |
1.Izzatnagar
2.Lucknow
3.Varnasi |
7
|
South Eastern Railway | 1955 | Kolkata | 2631 |
1.Adra
2.Chakradharpur
3.Kharagpur
4.Ranchi |
8
|
North Eastern Frontier Railway | 15thJanuary 1958 |
Maligaon
(Guwahati) |
3907 |
1.Alipurduar
2.Katiha
3.Lumding
4.Rangia
5.Tinsukia |
9
|
South Central Railway | 2ndOctober 1966 | Secondrabad | 5951 |
1.Guntakal
2.Guntur
3.Hydrabad
4.Nanded
5.Secondrabad
6.Vijayawada |
10
|
Kongan Railway Corporation | 19thJuly 1990 | Navi Mumbai | 741 |
1.Goa
2.Verna |
11
|
East Central Railway | 1st October 2002 | Patna-Hajipur | 3628 |
1.Dhanbad
2.Danapur
3.Mughalsarai
4.Samastipur
5.Sonapur |
12
|
North Western Railway | 1st October 2002 | Jaipur | 5459 |
1.Ajmer
2.Bikaner
3.Jaipur
4.Jodhpur |
13
|
East Coast Railway | 1st April 2003 | Bhuvaneshwar | 2677 |
1.Khurda
Road
2.Sambalpur
3.Visakapattinam |
14
|
North Central Railway | 1st April 2003 | Allagabad | 3151 |
1.Agra
2.
Allagabad
3.Jhansi |
15
|
South East Central Railway | 1st April 2003 | Bilaspur | 2447 |
1.Bilaspur
2.Raipur
3.Nagpur |
16
|
South Western Railway | 1stApril 2003 | Hubli | 3177 |
1.Bangalore
2.Gulbarga
3.Hubli
4.Mysore |
17
|
West Central Railway | 1stApril 2003 | Jabalpur | 2965 |
1.Bhopal
2.Jabalpur
3.Kota |
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