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Dear Readers,we have collected some important information about Indian Railways. We
hope, it will help you in Competitive exams.

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Indian Railways is an Indian state-owned enterprise, owned and operated by

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the Government of India through the Ministry of Railways. It is one of the worlds largest
railway networks comprising 115,000 km and 7,112 stations.

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Railways were first introduced to India in the year 1853 from Mumbai to Thane
Indian Railways Nationalised in 1950

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The countrys first railway, built by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway
The Indian railway system is the largest in Asia and third in the world after USA and
Canada.

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It is the biggest employer in the world and the largest single undertaking in the
country
It has the second biggest electrified system in the world after Russia
Indian Railways is divided into 16 zones.which are further sub-divided into68
divisions
Each zone is headed by a general manager
Railway Zones

Name

Southern

Established
14 April
1951

Headquarters

Chennai

Divisions
Chennai, Tiruchirappalli, Madurai,
and Salem, Palakkad,Thiruvananthapuram

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Western

Eastern

Northern

5 November
1951
5 November
1951
14 April
1952
14 April
1952

North

14 April

Eastern

1952

South
Eastern
Northeast

1955

15 January

South

2 October

Central

1966

East

1 October

Central

2002

North
Western
East
Coast
North
Central

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1 October

Mumbai

Mumbai

Kolkata

Delhi

Mumbai,CST, Bhusawal, Pune, Solapur and

Nagpur
Mumbai,Central, Ratlam, Ahmedabad, Rajkot,
Bhavnagar and Vadodara

Howrah, Sealdah, Asansol and Malda Town

Delhi, Ambala, Firozpur, Lucknow and

Moradabad

Gorakhpur

Izzatnagar, Lucknow and Varanasi

Kolkata

Adra, Chakradharpur, Kharagpur and Ranchi

Maligaon

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Alipurduar, Katihar, Rangia, Lumding and

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Secunderabad

Hajipur

Vijayawada, Secunderabad, Guntakal, Guntur,

Hyderabad and Nanded
Danapur, Dhanbad, Mughalsarai, Samastipur
and Sonpur

Jaipur

Jaipur, Ajmer, Bikaner and Jodhpur

1 April 2003

Bhubaneswar

Khurda Road, Sambalpur and Visakhapatnam

1 April 2003

Allahabad

Allahabad, Agra and Jhansi

1 April 2003

Bilaspur

Bilaspur, Raipur and Nagpur

1 April 2003

Hubli

Hubli, Bangalore, Mysore and Gulbarga

2002

South
East
Central
South
Western

West

1 April 2003

Jabalpur

Jabalpur, Bhopal and Kota

Central

Railway Tracks:

Track Distance between rails

Broad Gauge 1676mm
Metre Gauge 1000mm
Narrow Gauge 762mm/610mm
Manufacturing Unit

Name of the Unit

Location

Chittaranjan Locomotive Works

Chittaranjan, West Bengal

Central Organisation for Railway Electrification

Allahabad, UP

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Diesel Locomotive Works

Varanasi, UP

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Diesel Loco Modernisation Works

Integral Coach Factory

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Rail Coach Factory

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Rail Wheel Factory

Patiala, Punjab
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Kapurthala, Punjab
Bangalore, Karnataka

Rail Coach Factory

Raebareli, UP

Rail Wheel Plant

Chhapra, Bihar

Diesel Component Factory

Dankuni, West Bengal

Luxury Train routes

Name

Run by

Route
Delhi-Jaipur-Sawai-Madhopur-

Palace on Wheels

Rajasthan Tourism

Chittorgarh-Udaipur-Jaisalmer-JodhpurBharatpur-Agra-Delhi

Deccan Odyssey

Maharashtra
Tourism

New Delhi Sawai Madhopur Agra

Jaipur Udaipur Vadodara Ellora
Caves Mumbai
Bengaluru, Kabini, Mysore-Belur

The Golden

Karnataka Tourism

Chariot

Halebidu Hampi Badami Goa

Bengaluru
Delhi Jaipur Jaisalmer Jodhpur

Royal Rajasthan

Rajasthan Tourism

on Wheels

Sawai Madhopur Chittorgarh

Udaipur Bharatpur Agra Delhi

Important Railway Committees

Shahnawaz Committee 1954, High Level Safety Review Committee

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Kanjaru Committee 1962, Railway Accidents Committee

Seekari Committee 1978, Railway Accidents Enquiry Committee

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Khanna Committee 1998, Railway Safety Review Committee

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Arvind Panagariya committee 2016 to fast-track bullet train project

Important facts about Railway:

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First train in India Mumbai to Thane, With 400 passengers, this train completed its

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journey of 34 kms with the help of three enginesSahib, Sindh and Sultan.
Father of Indian Railway Lord Dalhousie
Fastest train The Bhopal Shatabdi Express,1988,betweenAgra and New Delhi
Slowest train in India- Nilgri Express,between Chennai and Mettupalayam
First electric train Deccan Queen, 1931,connects Mumbai with Pune .
First double-decker train Shatabdi train was flagged off in October 2011
First air-conditioned double-decker train Shatabdi train will run from Mumbai to
Goa
First underground railway (Metro Railway) Kolkata Metro(1984)
Largest Zone in Indian Railways Northern Railway
A platform surrounded by rail lines from all the four sides Island platform
First railway station Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station in Mumbai.
Longest running train -Vivek Express. It runs from Dibrugarh in upper Assam to
Kanyakumari at the southern tip of Tamil Nadu.

Longest railway platform Kharagpur has the worlds third longest railway platform
with a length of 1,072.5 metres (3,519 ft).
First A.C. train between Bombay and Baroda started 1936
First broad gauge super fast train rajdhani express new delhi howrah 1 stmarch
1969
First metre gauge super fast train pink city express new delhi jaipur 17 thoct 1981
First narrow gauge super fast train shivalik deluxe express kalka shimla 9thaug
1996
First time table 1853 central india
First stamp on indian railways 4 annas 10thdec 1936 by king george
First ac train mumbai and baroda 1936
First automatic signalling system 1928
First railway book stall 1877 allahabad wheeler & co ltd
First wagon in india 1920 jessop & co., Kolkata

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First vestibuled train 1 stjune 1930, deccan queen

Worlds first double decker train 1862 bb&cir
First railway tunnel of Indian railway -Parsik tunnel

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Countries there is no railway line Lebanon,Mauritius reunion, Libya, Argentina,

Afghanistan, Papua,New Guinea

Trains that have placed in Guinness Book -Darjeeling Toy Train, Nilgiri Mountain Train
Simla Toy Train, Mathenron Toy Train, Place on wheels Royal Orient, Buddha circular

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Express, Fairy Queen.

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Satpura Express numerical name 10001/10002 run between Jabalpur and

Balaghat

Longest train -Prayagraj Express (26 Coaches, New DelhiAllahabad)

Highest Railway station in India Similiguda (996.08 mt from sea level in the Valtair
division of SouthernEastern Railway)
Highest river bridge manufactured under Konkan Railway Panval River Rail bridge
(64 mt. high)
Division that has maximum number of tunnels Kalka Simla division of Northern
Railway (103 tunnels)
Longest railway bridge of Indian railway Railway bridge in Kerala near Kochchi joins
Idapalli to Vallerpadma (Length 4.62 km)
Last railway station of Northern Railway and Indian Railway Bajalta
Indian state has maximum rail routes Uttar Pradesh

Himsagar Express passes through 11 States(Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab,

Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh,
Tamilnadu, Karnataka and Kerala)
Railway station that has all the three rails -Dumdum Railway station (EMU rail service
circular Railway and Metro Railway)
Railway station has smallest name from the English alphabets -IB (Between
HowrahNagpur)
Railway station has longest name Venkatanarsimharajuvaripeta (Tamilnadu)
First female operator in Delhi Metro Minakshi Sharma.
First female to become the member of Railway Board Vijaylaxmi Vishwanathan
Longest platform situated Khadagpur (West Bengal)
Train only for women run From Churchgate to Boriwali in Mumbai
Metro Rail in Calcutta 1984
Railway week celebrated on 1016April.

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19 Railway Recruitment Boards are there in India

First tourist rail Palace on wheels in 1982 between DelhiJaipur

Railway accident in the history of Indian Railway occurred in Morghat (PureBombay

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root) on 5 January, 1869

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Longest rail route in India from Dibrugarh (Assam) To Kanyakumari

First monorail operate in India From Sarhind to Alampur and Bhawani mandi to
Patiala

Indias first indigenous steam engine F734

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First longest railway tunnel situated between Monkey hill and Khandala (2100 mt)

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First telecommunication between guard and driver MumbaiNew Delhi (Rajdhani

Express)

First Rajdhani Express ran between New DelhiHowrah , 1969

First DC electrical rail engine Lokmanya (CLW manufactured it in 1961)
First computer reservation system start in New Delhi, 2002
Biggest railway yard located in India-Itarasi (Madhya Pradesh)
Southern Eastern Railway is known as Blue chip
Metroman Shridharan (Delhi Metro Rail Engineers)
First Duranto Express ran between Sialdah and New Delhi 18 September, 2009
Numbers of Indian railway used to be of 5 Digits from 20 December, 2010
Busiest railway station in Indian-Lucknow (64 Trains everyday).
First railway factory established in Jamalpur, 1890
Train runs between India and Pakistan Samjhauta Express, Thar Express
Railway zone launched first Railway Time Table -Central Railway

State with minimum rail routes Manipur

First blind friendly train, from Mysuru to Varanasi Train no. 16226/ 16230.
Other Important Recent Facts :

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$ Dial 138 for medical emergency on train launched by Manoj Sinha, Minister of

State for Railways.

$ Golden Day in the history of Northeast 10 August 2015
$ Harsh Vardhan, Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu and Prakash Javadekar flagged off the

special train(16 coaches) named Science Express Climate Action Special

Climate Change 64 locations.
$ Japan offered to finance Indias first bullet train with an estimated cost of Rs.

90000 crores Mumbai and Ahmedabad with speed 300km/h and 350km/h.
$ Delhi Metros bagged ranked first ininformation during travel and holds second

position in train cleanliness and comfort.

$ Japanese maglev fastest passenger train across the world, has broken an earlier

speed record of 581 kmph as the train reached 603 kmph.

$ First Compressed Natural Gas(CNG)flagged off two trains(Rewari to Rohtak and

Rewari to Bikaner station) from Haryanas Rewari station.

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$ Mobile-m-Indicator launched for the safety of women-Mumbai suburban trains.

$ Mumbai will get its 1st double-decker bridge on P DMello Road at CST that will

have railway tracks and a motorway.

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$ Indias 1st railway-line built between Gandhidham and Tuna-Tekra Port under PPP

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model inaugurated in Gujarat.

$ Union cabinet approved a proposal to redevelop 400 railway stations using a

contract method called the Swiss challenge- 400 stations.

$ Gatimaan Express,Indias 1st semi-high speed train service with supersonic calliber

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between Delhi and Agra at a speed of 160 kph

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$ Indias 1st Diesel Electric Multiple Unit(DEMU) train service with an air-conditioned

coach is launched in Kochi Ernakulam-Tripunithura-Piravom train service.

$ 1st goods train from Lumding to Silchar in Assam-210Km.
$ Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged 1st train service from Thalaimannar to

Madhu Road in Northern Sri Lanka.

$ Indian Railways IRCTC Launched Ru-Pay pre-paid debit card-24th March 2015.
$ Delhi & Tokyo may ink pact for Indias first Bullet Train Mumbai and Ahmedabad.
$ Diamond Quadtrilateral project High speed rail connects Chennai, Mumbai,

Kolkata and Delhi

$ Current Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu

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