| First proposal |
Madras 1832
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| 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. |
