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Some trivia about Indian Railways
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editor on 26 February, 2008 11:13:00
 
*            Indian Railways            is the largest rail network in Asia and
the world’s second largest            under one management.
*            Indian Railways            runs around 11,000 trains everyday, of
which 7,000 are passenger trains.
*            The first            railway on Indian sub-continent ran over a
stretch of 21 miles from            Bombay to Thane.
*            The first            passenger train steamed out of Howrah station
destined for Hooghly,            a distance of 24 miles, on August 15, 1854.
*            By 1880, the            Indian Railway system had a route mileage
of about 9000 miles.
*            The longest            journey on the Inidian Raiways is from
Jammu Tawi (North) to Kanyakumari            (South), a distance of about 4,751
km covered by Himsagar Express in            about 66 hours
*            Computerised            railway reservation system was started at
Delhi in 1986
*            Of the 13            million passengers served by the Railway
network everyday, nearly 12            million are unreserved passengers.
*            Railways'            intra-net ‘Railnet’ provides
networking between Railway Board,            Zonal Headquarters, Divisional
headquarters, Production Units, Training            Centres etc.
*            The total            distance covered by the 14,300 trains 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.
*            The country's            first railway bridge is the Dapoorie
Viaduct on the Mumbai-Thane route.
*            Indian Railways'            only Rack & Pinion system type of line
is from Mettupalayam to Conoor            in Tamil Nadu.
*            The manufacture            of steam locomotives in the country was
stopped in 1972.
*            India’s            first rail tunnel is Parsik Tunnel.
*            The country's            longest tunnel is Karbude on Konkan
Railways, which is 6.5 km in length.
*            The national            Rail Museum at New Delhi was set-up in
1977.