India At A Glance – General Knowledge (Indian Railway)

India At A Glance : General Knowledge (Indian Railway) This information is very important for all major entrance and recruitment examinations. If you are preparing for Bank Probationary Officer (PO), B. Ed., SSC and any other graduation level exam, this forms the very basic of what you need to learn and practice.

India At A Glance – General Knowledge (Indian Railway)

Indian Railway 

First proposal	Madras 1832
Founded	On April 16th, 1853, when a train with 14 railway carriages and 400 guests left Bombay’s Bori Bunder for Thane.
Track gauge	1676 mm; 1000 mm; 762 mm; 610 mm
Electrification	21,500 km
Length	65,000 km
Headquarter	New Delhi, India
Stations	7000 to 8000
Nationalization	1951
First Railway Bridge	Dapoorie Viaduct on the Mumbai-Thane route
First Rail Tunnel	Parsik Tunnel
First Underground Railway	Calcutta Metro
Normal length of a passenger train	24 coaches
First Computerized Reservation	New Delhi (1986)
Fastest Train	India New Delhi-Bhopal Shatabdi Express is the fastest train in India (runs at a speed up to 150 Km/ph)
First electric train	Ran between Bombay’s Victoria Terminus and Kurla along the Harbour Line of CR, on February 3, 1925, a distance of 9.5 miles
Shortest Station Name	Ib, near Jharsuguda in Odisha and Od, near Anand in Gujarat
Longest Station Name	Venkatanarasimharajuvariipeta on the Arakkonam-Renigunta section near Chennai
Oldest Station	Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
Oldest trains still running	Bangalore Mail has been running in various guises since 1864
Highest railway station	Ghoom
Oldest running dining car	The Bombay–Pune Deccan Queen
Busiest Railway Station	Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
Longest Run (Time)	Vivek Express from Dibrugarh to Kanyakumari travels a distance of 4273
Shortest Run	Route between Nagpur and Ajni (3km)
Longest Run for Daily Train	Kerala Express (3054 km in 42.5 hrs)
Longest Non-Stop Run (Distance)	Trivandrum Rajdhani covering 528 km
Longest Railway Platform	Kharagpur (2,733 ft in length)
Longest Railway Bridge	Rail link between Idapalli railway station and ICTT, 4.62km
Tallest bridge	The Ghambir Khad bridge between Jammu Tawi and Udhampur is 77m tall.
Longest Tunnel	Karbude Tunnel of the Konkan Railway (6.5 km)
Oldest Preserved Locomotive	Fairy Queen (1855), still in working order
Daily Runs	About 10,000 trains
Daily Carries	More than 11 million passengers & 1 million tonnes of freight
Railway Station with all the Three Gauges	Siliguri Railway Station
People Employed	About 1.6 million people, fourth largest employer in World
Train with Maximum Number of Halts	Howrah-Amritsar Express (115 halts)
Stations across State Lines	Navapur (Maharashtra and Gujarat), Bhawani Mandi (Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan)
Northernmost railway station	Baramulla in Jammu and Kashmir
Western most station	Naliya near Bhuj in Gujarat
Southernmost railway station	Kanyakumari
East most railway station	Ledo on branch line from Tinsukia
Least punctual train	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.
Longest non-stop travel/ Trains with most stops	Trivandrum – H. Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express travels the 528km stretch between Vadodara and Kota non-stop
First electric locomotive	1908
UNESCO World Heritage Sites	Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus   and the Mountain Railways of ( Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, a narrow gauge railway in West Bengal)
First double Decker train	Flying Rani introduced in 2005
Largest railway complex in India	Howrah Station
Train crosses the largest number of states	Navyug express between Mangalore and Jammu Tawi
Train crossed maximum number of zones	Ernakulam-Barauni
The largest distance entirely in one state	Kolhapur-Gondia Maharashtra Exp,
Shortest distance between stations	Safilguda and Dayanand Nagar stations on the Secunderabad, 170m apart.