Essential facts about Indian Railways: -

 1 is a train running between India and Pakistan- Samjhauta Express

2 is a train running between India and Bangladesh- Friendship Express

3 Indian train which gave UNESCO World Heritage status- Darjeeling Himalayan Railway

4 Indian Railways transport around 25 million passengers per day.

 5 Dibrugarh Kanyakumari Vivek Express is the longest rail route in the Indian subcontinent.

 6 The slowest train in India is Mettupalayam Ooty Nilgiri Passenger Train.

7 India's highest railway station- Ghoom Railway Station (West Bengal).

 

 

Eight longest railway bridge in India- Vallarpadam Bridge, 4.62 km (Kerala).

Nine longest railway tunnel in India (second in Asia)- Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel 11.2 km (Jammu and Kashmir)

10 Total Areas in Indian Railways-18

11 Indian Railways slogan - the lifeline of the nation

12 Nawapur railway station is built in 2 states- Half of it is in Maharashtra and the other half in Gujarat.

13 Indian Railways got toilets after completing almost 50 years.

14 is the mascot of the Indian Railways- Bholu, guard elephant.

15 Indian Railways launched an awareness campaign train on December 1, 2007, on World AIDS Day, called the Red Ribbon Express.

 

 

16 The operations of Indian Railways are currently divided into 18 regions and subdivided into divisions, each with a divisional headquarters. Now, there are 73 departments.

17 Indian Railways has developed a low-cost ventilator, life at its Kapurthala Rail Coach Factory, saving thousands of lives. The country is struggling with a lack of medical equipment in its fight against coronavirus.

18 The Tejas Express, flagged off to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath (October 4, 2017), is run by the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), which recently made its stock market debut.

19 Konkan Railway is a railway operated by Konkan Railway Corporation, headquartered at Belapur, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra- Opened January 26, 1998

20 Konkan Railway Project was started in March 1990. The project began to link Goa, Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Kerala by a small railway route.

21 Northeast Frontier Railway is one of the 18 railway regions of India. Headquartered in Maligaon in Guwahati, Assam State, it is responsible for rail operations throughout the Northeast and parts of West Bengal and Bihar.

 

 

22 Rewari Demu is a passenger train of the Indian Railways that runs between Rohtak Junction railway station in Haryana and Rewari Junction railway station in Haryana. This train is India's first CNG train, flagged off on January 14, 2015, by Union Minister for Railways Suresh Prabhu. / This train is the first CNG train in India, flagged off by Central Railway "Suresh Prabhu" on January 14, 2015.

23 The train was launched on April 5, 2016, and completed its maiden voyage between Nizamuddin and Agra Cantt within 100 minutes. Indian Railways first ran this train from Agra to Gwalior on February 19, 2018, and then to Jhansi on April 1, 2018.

24 The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation is a subsidiary of the Indian Railways that handles catering, tourism, and online ticketing operations.

 

 

25 The 'Adarsh' station scheme has been launched from 2009-10, and at present, railway stations are upgraded under the Adarsh ​​Station Scheme. Since then, 1253 stations have been identified for development under the Adarsh ​​Station Scheme, of which 1149 stations have been developed under the Adarsh ​​Station Scheme so far, and the remaining stations are targeted to be developed by 2019-20.

26 The headquarters of South - Central Railway is located at Secunderabad. Secunderabad Railway Division is one of the six divisions of the South Central Railway zone (SCR) of the Indian Railways. It is one of the top five Indian Railways divisions, and its divisional and zonal headquarters are at Secunderabad.

 

 

27 In 1957, the standard central office (CSO) and the Railway Testing and Research Center (RTRC) were integrated into a single unit called Research Design and Standard Organization (RDSO) under the Ministry of Railways with its headquarters in the Grank Nagar city of Lucknow.

Twenty-eight thousand three hundred eighty-three stations have been identified in West Bengal, 152 in Uttar Pradesh, 110 in Maharashtra, and 77 in Kerala.

29 Nawapur station on Western Railway is built so that half of it is in Maharashtra and the other half in Gujarat. Bhawani Mandi is another station shared by Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.

 

 

30 Hyderabad's Kacheguda railway station is the first digital railway station in India. Every financial transaction can be done digitally at this station.

31 The Great Indian Peninsula was railway for the Middle Railway, whose headquarters was in Banded of Mumbai. On August 1, 1849, the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company was included.

32 In India, the most extensive route is 8726 kilometers in Kilmer.

 

 

33 According to the agreement between the Indian Railways and the Alstom Company of France, the company will make 800 engines in the country 11 years under the Indian Railways Make in India. In the year 2015, an agreement of Rs 20 thousand crores was made for this.

34 One engine will be manufactured in 2017-18, 4 in 2018-19, 100 machines in 2019-20. After this, one hundred engines will be manufactured in the factory every year from the year 2022.

35 Online ticketing through the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation IRCTC) the website was introduced in 2002 by introducing the concept of ticketing, where tickets were booked through the IRCTC website, and physical tickets delivered to the passenger's address provided by the courier.

 

 

36 The Indian Railway Board was constituted in 1922 as a Chief Commissioner of Railways, which was solely responsible to the government for decisions on technical matters and advising the government on policy issues.

37 The Matheran Hill Railway (MHR) is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge heritage railway in Maharashtra, India, administered by the Central Railway. It covers 21 km (13 mi), cutting a swathe through the forest and connecting Neral to Matheran in the Western Ghats. Matheran Hill Railway (MHR) is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge heritage railway in Maharashtra, India, administered by the Central Railway. It covers a distance of 21 km (13 mi), cuts an erosion through the forest, and connects Neral to Matheran in the Western Ghats.

 

 

38 Ghoom railway station of Darjeeling Himalayan Railway is the highest in India. It is situated at an altitude of 2,258 meters (7,407 ft).

39 The Indian Railways' track is spread across a massive 115,000 km, making it the largest rail network in Asia and the world's second-largest network operated under single management. The entire track covers a route length of 67,368 km. The full track length of Indian Railways can circle the equator 1.5 times.

40 Kalka Mail is currently the oldest running train in the history of Indian Railways. It completed its 152 years of journey this year and continues to move forward. The march began its operation in 1866 as the "East Indian Railway Mail" with 01 Up and 02 Down number plates.