INDIAN RAILWAY INFORMATION

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Indian Railways
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             Over a stretch of 21 miles from Bombay to Thane in the Indian sub - continent 's first railway .Thane, Kalyan and Tal and Bhore Ghats with the idea of a railway to connect Bombay During Mr.George Clarke , an engineer at the ceremony occurred in the first inclines to the Government of Bombay In 1843, a visit to bhandup . The official inauguration ceremony on April 16, 1853 , was performed in 14 railway carriages Ami dst loud applause from the vast multitude of Bori Bunder at 3.30pm " on the left , carrying about 400 guests And a 21 -gun salute . " The first passenger train from Howrah station destined steam On August 15, Hooghly , 24miles away , 1854.Thus the first section of the East Indian Wade opened on the railway , opened to public traffic, railway transport Subcontinent.In the south east side of the first line of the 1st of July , 1856, was launched on Madras Railway Company.It Vyasarpadi Jeeva home (veyasarpandy) and ran to the middle of the road Walajah ( Arcot ) , at a distance of 63 lines, 199 miles north of miles.In length was laid from Allahabad Hathras Road to Mathura from the 3rd of March 1859.The Contonment opened the first section of the crowd 19 October 1875, on the traffic . For this reason, in the course of the development of a network of railway lines, all of which are small to begin country.By 1880 over 9000 miles of Indian Railways had a route mileage .Indian Railways, the largest rail network in the country, the main transoprt company Asia and the second largest in the world under management .

  Indian railways is a multi-gauge,multi-traction system covering the following:-

Track Kilometers   Broad Gauge       Meter Gauge      Narrow gauge       Total

                   (1676 mm)         (1000 mm)        (762/610 mm)

                    86,526            18,529            3,651           108,706

Route Kilometers  Electrified         Total

       

                    16,001            63,028

Other interesting facts of Indian Railways

 7566               37,840               2,22,147            6853

locomotives     Coaching vehicles      Freight wagons      Station

 300                2300                  700                1.54

Yards             Good sheds           Repair shop       Million-Work force

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