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INDIAN RAILWAY<br />
• Indian Railway is the second<br />
largest railway system in India<br />
• Father of Indian Railway<br />
Lord Delhousie<br />
• Indian Railway started its forst<br />
train service on<br />
16 th April 1853<br />
• Headquarters of Indian Railway<br />
Baroda House<br />
(New Delhi)<br />
• Indian Railway museum<br />
Chanakyapuri (New Delhi)<br />
• Mascot of Indian Railway<br />
Elephant named Bholu<br />
• Indian Railway was nationlised<br />
in<br />
1951<br />
• The number of Railway zones in<br />
India<br />
17<br />
• Present Railway Minister of India<br />
Piyush Goyal<br />
• First Railway Minister of Independent<br />
India<br />
John Mathai<br />
• The second Keralite who served as<br />
Union Railway Minister<br />
Panamballi Govinda Menon<br />
• The year in which railway budget<br />
was separated from general<br />
budget<br />
1924<br />
• first Metro railway in India<br />
Kolkata<br />
• First Metro in kerala<br />
Kochi<br />
• First metro railway in South India<br />
Bengaluru<br />
• First Wi-Fi enabled railway<br />
station in India<br />
New Delhi<br />
• First railway station in India to<br />
get Google’s free high speed wi-fi<br />
Mumbai Central<br />
Konkan Railway<br />
• konkan railway links Mangalore with<br />
Rohe (Maharastra)<br />
• Headquarters of Konkan Railway<br />
Belapur<br />
• Length of konkan railway<br />
760 km<br />
• Konkon railway was commissioned in<br />
1998<br />
• The distance between two rails of<br />
a railroad<br />
Guage<br />
• Broadguage length - 1.676<br />
• Meter guage - 1m<br />
• Narrow guage - 0.762 m<br />
• World’s oldest steam locomotive<br />
Fairy Queen<br />
• The country that helps to build the<br />
first bullet train in India<br />
Japan<br />
• The first bullet train in India will<br />
run between<br />
Mumbai & Ahemedabad<br />
• The longest railway platform in the<br />
world<br />
Gorakhpur<br />
• The highest railway station in India<br />
Ghum railway station<br />
• Longest service<br />
train in India<br />
Vivek Express<br />
(Dibrugarh<br />
-Kanayakumari)<br />
• Train service<br />
which passes<br />
through most<br />
number of states<br />
Navayug<br />
Express<br />
• Longest Railway tunnel in India<br />
Pir Panjal<br />
• Fastest train in India<br />
Gathiman express<br />
(160km/hr)<br />
• The first electric train in India<br />
Deccan Queen<br />
• First city started Mono rail in India<br />
Mumbai<br />
• Train service started to<br />
Central Railway<br />
Eastern Railway<br />
Northern Railway<br />
North - East Railway<br />
North - East Frontier Railway<br />
Southern Railway<br />
South Central Railway<br />
South East Railway<br />
Western Railway<br />
East Central Railway<br />
East Coast Railway<br />
North Central Railway<br />
North West Railway<br />
South west railway<br />
West central Railway<br />
South East central railway<br />
Kolkata Metro<br />
Production Units of Indian Railway<br />
• Chittaranjan Locomotive works - Chittaranjan<br />
• Diesel Locomotive works - Varanasi<br />
• Integral Coach Factory<br />
- Perambur<br />
• Rail Coach Factory<br />
- Kapurthala<br />
• Rail wheel Factory<br />
- Yelehanka<br />
• Disel Loco Modernisation works - Patiala<br />
Railway Zones in India<br />
commemorate 100 th birth<br />
anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru<br />
Shatabdi Express<br />
Kerala Railway<br />
• First train in Kerala conducted its<br />
maiden service on<br />
12 th March 1861<br />
(Beypur - Thirur)<br />
• First railway division in Kerala<br />
Palakkad<br />
• Biggest railway station in Kerala<br />
Shornur<br />
• Districts in Kerala which have no<br />
rail routes<br />
Idukki, Wayanad<br />
• The district with most number of<br />
railway stations in kerala<br />
Trivandrum<br />
• Kochi metro was inagurated on<br />
17 th June 2017<br />
• Metro Man of India<br />
E. Sreedharan<br />
Mumbai CST<br />
Kolkata<br />
New Delhi<br />
Gorakhpur<br />
Guwahati<br />
Chennai<br />
Secundrabad<br />
Kolkata<br />
Mumbai<br />
Hajipur<br />
Bhuvaneshwar<br />
Allahabad<br />
Jaipur<br />
Hubli<br />
Jabalpur<br />
Bilaspur<br />
Kolkata
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