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51 Interesting and Must-Know Facts About Indian Railways

• Indian Railways is the largest rail network in Asia and the world’s second-largest. Railway Study Materials
• The First train on Indian soil ran between Bombay and Thane on the 16th of April 1853.
• The New Delhi Railway Station has secured a place in the Guinness Book of Records for having the world’s largest Route Relay Interlocking System.

• Indian Railways transports almost 2.5 crore passengers daily.
• Indian Railways is one of the world’s largest employers with over 1.4 million people.
• Bhopal Shatabdi Express is the fastest train in India, operates between New Delhi and Bhopal Junction.
• Dibrugarh Kanyakumari Vivek Express the longest train route in the Indian Subcontinent.
• Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta railway station has the longest name among all stations on the Indian Railway system.

• Mughalsarai Junction railway station contains the largest railway marshaling yard in Asia.
• The Rajdhani Express trains get the highest priority on the Indian railway network.
• Gorakhpur Junction railway station has the world’s longest railway platform with a length of 1,366.33 m.
• The Slowest train in India is the Mettupalayam Ooty Nilgiri passenger train.
• Kolkata Metro zone of Indian Railways will run 1,500 ft underwater metro in India under the Hooghly River between Mahakaran and Howrah station.

• The Fairy Queen between New Delhi and Alwar in Rajasthan is the oldest functioning steam engine in the world.
• Trivandrum HNizamuddin Rajdhani Express covers a distance of 528 km without a single stop.
• Nilgiri Mountain Railway a single track and only rack and pinion rail systems operate in India.
• Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus is considered to be the most beautiful train station in India.

• The Maharaja Express is the most expensive luxury train in India.
• Howrah is the busiest railway station in the nation train frequency of 974.
• Ghum Railway station of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway is the highest railway station in India.
• Chenab Bridge will be the world’s tallest railway bridge under construction in Jammu and Kashmir.
• Vembanad Rail Bridge of Kerala is the longest rail bridge in India with a total length of 4.62 km.

• Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel is India’s longest railway tunnel with a length of 11.215 km in the middle Himalayas.
• Ib Railway station of Odisha has the shortest name of all stations on the Indian Railways system.
• Konkan Railway Train Route is the most beautiful train route of Indian Railways.
• The Kashmir Railway is the most difficult railway line project of Indian Railways.
• Mumbai Suburban Railway is the oldest railway system in Asia.

• The Delhi Metro is India’s first modern metro and facilities with the most advanced technologies.
• Calcutta Metro is the first underground metro railway system in India.
• The Rail Museum in Delhi is the largest in Asia.
• The New Delhi Railway Station has the world’s largest Route Relay Interlocking System.
• Ernakulam HNizamudin Duronto is the longest-running Duronto express in Indian Railways.

• Loco-pilots are paid more than an average software engineer in India.
• If the tracks of Indian railways were to be laid out, they would circle the earth almost 1.5 times.
• Indian Railways is a massively successful organization running 11,000 trains in a day.
• Mathura junction has the maximum number of routes emerging from it.

• The Diamond crossing in Nagpur is one-of-its-kind in India, from where trains go East, West, North, and South.
• Howrah-Amritsar Express has 115 stops, the record maximum for an Express train.
• The Guwahati Thiruvananthapuram Express holds the record for being the most unreliable long-distance train on the Indian Railways network.

• The IRCTC (Indian Railways Catering & Tourism Corporation) website gets close to 12 lakh hits per minute.
• The Railway station of Navapur is built in 2 states; one half of it is in Maharashtra and the other half is in Gujarat.
• Train services between Nagpur and Ajni, situated just 3km apart, form the shortest route.
• The Trains got toilets after Indian Railways completed about 50 years.
• Indian Railways has a mascot – Bholu, the Guard Elephant.

• Indian Railways launched an awareness campaign train on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2007, called the Red Ribbon Express.
• Railways have 17 zones over a route of 65,808 km with 7,112 stations.
• The Famed Darjeeling toy train, which is still running on its indigenous steam engine, was built by India’s British colonial master in 1881.

• World Heritage sites 4 Indian Railways sites and 5 Mountain Railways.
• Samjhuata Express was the first international border train in India.
• Red Ribbon Express is an AIDS/HIV awareness campaign train by the Indian Railways, launched in India on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2007.
• Ahmedabad Mumbai Central Double Decker Express is India’s first double Decker train.