INDIAN RAILWAYS
- Indian Railways is an Indian State-Owned Enterprise, owned and operated by the Government of India through the Ministry of Railways.
- Indian Railways is one of the world's largest railway networks comprising 115,000 km (71,000 miles) of track over a route of 65,808 km (40,891 miles) and 7,112 stations In 2014-15, Indian Railways carried 8.397 billion passengers annually or more than 23 million passengers a day (roughly half of whom were suburban passengers) and 1058.81 million tons of freight in the year.
- In 2014–2015 Indian Railways had revenues of ₹1634.50 billion (US$24 billion) which consists of ₹1069.27 billion (US$16 billion) from freight and₹402.80 billion (US$6.0 billion) from passengers tickets.
- Railways were first introduced to India in the year 1853 from Mumbai to Thane. In 1951 the systems were nationalized as one unit, the Indian Railways.
- Indian Railways, operations cover twenty nine states and seven union territories and also provides limited international services to Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
- Indian Railways is the world's seventh largest commercial or utility employer, by number of employees, with over 1.376 million employees as of last published figures in 2013.
- The first train on Indian soil ran between Bombay and Thane on the 16th of April 1853
- The Longest Platform in the world is at Kharagpur and is 2,733 ft. in length
- Nehru Setu on Sone River is the longest Railway bridge
- 42 Railway companies operated in the Country before Independence
- Electric Locomotives are manufactured at Chittaranjan Locomotive Works, Chittaranjan
- Coaches are manufactured at ICF-Chennai, RCF-Kapurthala and BEML-Bangaluru
- The National Rail Museum at New Delhi was set-up in 1977
- Railway Station with all the Three Gauges is Siliguri Railway Station
- Indian Railways is divided into 16 zones, which are further sub-divided into divisions.
- The number of zones in Indian Railways increased from six to eight in 1951, nine in 1966 and sixteen in 2003.
- Each zonal railway is made up of a certain number of divisions, each having a divisional headquarters. There are a total of sixty-eight divisions.
LIST OF RAILWAY ZONES & DIVISIONS
EXAMINATION POINT OF VIEW IN INDIAN RAILWAYS
No
|
Name
|
Route Km.
|
Head
Quarters
|
Divisions
|
1
|
Southern Railway
(SR)
Estd:
14 April 1951
|
6844
|
Chennai
|
Chennai, Tiruchirappalli, Madurai, Salem, Palakkad,
Thiruvananthapuram
|
2
|
Central Railway
(CR)
Estd:
5 November 1951
|
3905
|
Mumbai
|
Mumbai CST, Bhusawal,Pune, Solapur, Nagpur
|
3
|
Western Railway
(WR)
Estd:
5 November 1951
|
6182
|
Mumbai
|
Mumbai Central, Ratlam,
Ahmedabad, Rajkot,Bhavnagar, Vadodara
|
4
|
Eastern Railway (ER)
Estd:
14 April 1952
|
2414
|
Kolkata
|
Howrah, Sealdah, Asansol, Malda Town
|
5
|
Northern Railway (NR)
Estd:
14 April 1952
|
6968
|
Delhi
|
Delhi, Ambala, Firozpur,Lucknow, Moradabad
|
6
|
North Eastern Railway
(NER)
Estd:14 April 1952
|
3667
|
Gorakhpur
|
Izzatnagar, Lucknow,
Varanasi
|
7
|
South Eastern Railway
(SER)
Estd:1955
|
2631
|
Kolkata
|
Adra, Chakradharpur, Kharagpur, Ranchi
|
8
|
Northeast Frontier Railway
(NFR)
Estd:15 January 1958
|
3907
|
Maligaon
|
Alipurduar, Katihar, Rangia,Lumding, Tinsukia
|
9
|
South Central Railway
(SCR)
Estd:
2 October 1966
|
5951
|
Secunderabad
|
Vijayawada, Secunderabad,Guntakal, Guntur, Hyderabad and Nanded
|
10
|
East Central Railway (ECR)
Estd:
1 October 2002
|
3628
|
Hajipur
|
Danapur, Dhanbad,Mughalsarai, Samastipur and Sonepur
|
11
|
North Western Railway
(NFR)
Estd:
1 October 2002
|
5459
|
Jaipur
|
Jaipur, Ajmer, Bikaner and Jodhpur
|
12
|
East Coast Railway
(ECoR)
1 April 2003
|
2677
|
Bhubaneswar
|
Khurda Road, Sambalpur and Visakhapatnam
|
13
|
North Central Railway
(NCR)
Estd:1 April 2003
|
3151
|
Allahabad
|
Allahabad, Agra and Jhansi
|
14
|
South East Central Railway
(SECR)
Estd:1 April 2003
|
2447
|
Bilaspur
|
Bilaspur, Raipur and Nagpur
|
15
|
South Western Railway
(SWR)
Estd:1 April 2003
|
3177
|
Hubballi
|
Hubballi, Bengaluru, Mysuru, Gulbarga
|
16
|
West Central Railway
(WCR)
Estd:1 April 2003
|
2965
|
Jabalpur
|
Jabalpur, Bhopal, Kota
|
Speedest Train in India
|
Gatimaan Express is a semi high speed train that runs between New Delhi and Agra with the maximum speed of 160 km per hour.
|
First Passenger Train
|
16th April 1853 (between Bombay to Thane)
|
First Railway Bridge
|
Dapoorie Viaduct on the Mumbai-Thane route
|
First Rail Tunnel
|
Parsik Tunnel
|
First Ghats Covered by the Rail lines
|
Thal and Bhore Ghats
|
First Underground Railway
|
Calcutta METRO
|
First Computerized Reservation System started
|
New Delhi (1986)
|
First Electric Train
|
3rd Feb' 1925 (between Bombay VT
and Kurla)
|
Toilets on Trains were introduced
|
1891 (1st Class) & 1907 (lower classes)
|
Shortest Station
|
Ib (Orissa)
|
Longest Station
|
Sri Venkatanarasimharajuvariapeta
(Andhra Pradesh)
|
Busiest Railway Station
|
Lucknow (64 trains everyday)
|
Longest Run (Time)
|
Vivek Express (3715 km in Approx 71 hrs)
|
Shortest Run
|
Route between Nagpur to Ajni (3km)
|
Longest Run for Daily Train
|
Kerala Express (3054 km in 42.5 hrs)
|
Longest Non-Stop Run (Distance)
|
Trivandrum Rajdhani (528 km in 6.5 hrs)
|
Longest Railway Platform in the World
|
Kharagpur (2,733 ft in length)
|
Longest Railway Bridge
|
Nehru Setu on Sone River (10044ft in length)
|
Longest Tunnel
|
Karbude On Konkan Railway between Monkey hill & Khandala (6.5 km)
|
Oldest Preserved Locomotive
|
Fairy Queen (1855), still in working order
|
Indian Railway's Fastest Train
|
Bhopal-Shatabdi (runs at a speed up to 140 Km/ph)
|
Train with Maximum Number of Halts
|
Howrah-Amritsar Express (115 halts)
|
INDIAN RAILWAY ON NEWS (DINAMALAR DAILY)
