The Ultimate Guide To INDIAN RAILWAY IMPORTANT INFORMATION

INDIAN RAILWAY : The first in India

 First Railway ( Steam Engine )
Ans: Mumbai To Thane ( 16 April 1856 )   
● First Railway  ( Electric )
Ans: Mumbai To Kurla ( 5 February 1925) 
● The First Subway
Ans: Metro Railway, Calcutta ( Second - Delhi)
● First Railway Engine Name
Ans: Beauty
● The First Train (Diesel engine) Ran
Ans: 1957
● First Electrical Engine Name
Ans: Mahalaxmi
● First Railway Minister
Ans: Asaf Ali
● First Railway Postal Service
Ans: 1907
● First Computerised Railway Reservation Center
Ans: New Delhi
● First Railway Lady Driver
Ans: Mumtaz Khatwala
● First Railway Museum
Ans: New Delhi
● The first railway minister to resign after claiming moral responsibility for a train accident
Ans: Lal Bhadhur Shastri
● The first air-conditioned coaches were introduced
Ans: 1936
● For the first time, the railway budget was telecast live
Ans: 24 March 1994
● The first railway station around which the private sector got the right to advertise
Ans: Bandra ( Mumbai )
● First Century Express
Ans: Delhi - Bhopal

 INDIAN RAILWAY IMPORTANT INFORMATION


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COUNTRY
STEAM ENGINE
THOMAS SEBERI ( 1698 )
ENGLAND
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THOMAS NEWCAMEN (1712 )
ENGLAND
STEAM CONDENSER
JAMES WATT ( 1765 )
ENGLAND
DIESEL ENGINE
RUDOLPH DIESEL (1895 )
GERMANY
LOCOMOTIVE
RICHARD EVENCHICK ( 1804)
ENGLAND

Railway Manufacturing - Major Factory


Railway Coach
Kaporthala
Integral Coach
Permumbar ( Chennai )
Wheel and Axle
Benglore
Diesel Locomotive
Varanasi
Diesel Component Works
Patiala
Locomotive Works
Chitra jan

Some Important Railways

The name of the railway
Where does it run from?
Distance (km)
Rajdhani Express
Mumbai - Delhi
Mumbai - Nizzamudin
New Delhi - Howrah
Bangalore - Nizzamudin
Bhuneshvar - New Delhi
Nizzamudin - Secunderabad
New Delhi - Guhati
New Delhi - Teruvantpuram
New Delhi - Patna
Chennai - Nizzamudin
Ahmadabad - NewDelhi
Jammu-Tavi - NewDelhi 
1384
1378
1441
2486
1258
1653

1922
2864

992
2198
931
581
Him sagar Express
Kanyakumari - Jammu - Tavi
3726
Shatabdi Express
New Delhi - Bhopal
New Delhi - Lucknow
New Delhi - Kalkha
New Delhi - Chandigarh
New Delhi - Amritsar
New Delhi - Ajmer
New Delhi - Dehradhun
Chennai - Mysore
Chennai - Tirupati
Chennai - Coimbatore
Hawda - Bokaro
Hawda - Rurkela
Mumbai - Ahmadabad
Mumbai - Pune

705
507
272
240
447
448
264
508
147
494
310
415
492
191
Geetanjali Express
Hawda - Mumbai CST
1968
Karnataka Express
New Delhi - Bangalore
2444
Him giri Express
Hawda - Jammu Tavhi
3726
Frontier Mail
Mumbai Central - Amritsar
1900
Netravati Express
Mumbai CST - Kochi
1852
Pushpak Express
Mumbai CST - Lucknow
1414
Minar Express
Mumbai CST - Secunderabad
800
Ratnagiri Express
Mumbai CST - Varanasi
1509
Flying Rani Express
Mumbai CST - Surat
263
Indryani Express
Mumbai CST - Pune
191
Deccan Express
Mumbai CST - Pune
191
Singhgad Express
Mumbai CST - Pune
191
Gomti Express
New Delhi - Lucknow
507
Magadh Express
New Delhi - Patna
992
Prayagraj Express
New Delhi - Allahabad
627
Malva Express
New Delhi - Indore
969
Shan E Punjab
Amritsar - New Delhi
447
Shramjhivi Express
New Delhi - Patna
1001
Pink City Express
Delhi - Jaipur
308
Chetak Express
Delhi - Udaipur
739
Ashram Express
Delhi - Ahmadabad
934
Suryanagari Express
Ahmadabad - Jodhpur
455
Himalayan Express
New Delhi - Kalka
268
Vrindavan Express
Chennai - Bangalore
362
Konark Express
Bhuneshwar - Secunderabad
1144
Golden Temple Mail
Mumbai - Amritsar
1835
Sarvodaya Express
Jammu Tahvi - Ahmadabad
1682
Tufan Express
New Delhi - Howda
1441
Kanchan ganga Express
Howda - Guhati
991
Kalka Express
Howda - Kalka
1709
Koramandal Express
Howda - Chennai
1663
Tamilnadu Express
New Delhi - Chennai
2190

Types of railways according to the distance between the two rails

  • Broad gauge Wide measured - 1.676 meter
  • Meter gauge Meter measured - 1.000 mete
  • Narrow gauge Narrow measured - 0.762 meter
  • Light gauge - 0.610 meter

Railway Department

Railway Department
Headquarters
Difference (route km)
Central Railway
Mumbai CST
3848.71
South-East Central Railway
Bilaspur 
2439.76
East Railway
Kolkata
2413.81
South-West Railway
Hubli
3106.00
West Railway
Mumbai Churchgate
6509.42
East-Central Railway
Hajipur
3465.54
South Railway
Chennai
5169.42
East Coastal Railway
Bhuneshwar
2567.82
North Railway
New Delhi
6858.50
North Central Railway
Allahabad
3078.33
North-East Railway
Gorakhpur
3447.00
North-West Railway
Jaipur
5274.59
North-Eastboundary Railway
Malegaon (Guhathi)
3756.64
West-Central Railway
Jabalpur
2964.84
South-Central Railway
Secunderabad
5734.47
South East Railway
Kolkata
2638.83

Indian Railways: Long, fast, big, tall,

  • The longest station (Platform)    - Kharagpur ( w.bengal )
  • The longest passenger train   - Him sagar Express (3726km-JammuTahvi to Kanya kumari)
  • Largest railway river bridge    - Abdul bari bridge (Coilvar river zilla Aara Bihar)
  • The highest railway station   - Zoom Darjeeling
  • Highest speed train   - Shatapdhi Express (New delhi to Bhopal)
  • Largest railway section      - North Railway (6858.50 km)
  • The smallest railway section   - East Railway (2413.81 km)

Indian Railways - State wise route kilometers

State / Union Territory
Route kilometer
Andhra pradesh
5171 km
Assam
2271km
Aruna chal pradesh
1 km
Uttar pradesh
8554 km
Uttar akhand
345 km
Orissa
2387 km
Karnataka
3005 km
Kerala
1050 km
Chattisgad
1185 km
Zharkhand
1965 km
Goa
69 km
Gujrat
5328 km
Maharashtra
5535 km
Madhya pradesh
4884 km
Mizoram
2 km
Manipur
1 km
West Bengal
3951 km
Haryana
1437 km
Himachalpradesh
258 km
    


Jammu and Kashmir
163 km
Nagaland
13 km
Punjab
2134 km
Rajasthan
5683 km
Tamilnadu
4131 km

Tripura

64 km
Bihar
3407 km
Delhi
182 km
Chandigarh
16 km
Pondicherry
11 km
Total
63,273 km

In short but important

  • Railways launched for the first time in the world
Ans: England (1825)
  • Railways in India were started on 16th April 1853 during his tenure
Ans: Governer General Lord Dalhousie
  • Launch of Indian Railway Board
Ans: 1905 (Lord Curzon tenure)
  • National cause of Indian Railways
Ans: 1950
  • Launch of insurance scheme for railway passengers
Ans: 1 April 1994
  • Mascot of Indian Railways
Ans: Bholu
  • Railways running between India and Pakistan
Ans: Samjota Express
  • Indian Railway Staff College
Ans: Vadodara
  • Indian Railway Department
Ans: 16
  • Launch of Place on Wheel Railway
Ans: 1982 (Railway Minister - Prakash chand Sheti Tenure
  • Land owned by Indian Railways
Ans: 4.31 Lakh Hector
  • Metro Coach Factory in India
Ans: Bharat Earthmovers Limited Bangalore
  • Railways launched on the occasion of India's Golden Jubilee of Independence
Ans: Suvarna jayanti Railway
  • Railway started on the birth centenary of Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan
Ans: Sampurna Kranti Express (Delhi-Patna)
  • Railway Board of India
Ans: 67
  • Certificate received by Delhi Metro Railway Corporation (DMRC) during its construction
Ans: I.S.O 14001
  • Commercial launch of Delhi Metro Railway
Ans: Shahdara To Tis Hazari
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