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Indian Railways is the largest railway system in the world under a single management.

The first train on Indian soil ran between Bombay and Thane on April 16, 1853.

Indian Railways has about 63,028 route kms of track.

Indian Railways employs about 1.55 million people

It carries over 13 million passengers & 1.3 million tones of freight everyday. It runs about 14,300 trains daily.

Indian Railways has about 7,000 railway stations.

The longest journey on the IR is from Jammu Tawi (North) to Kanya Kumari (South), a distance of about 4,751 kms. covered by Himsagar Express in about 66 hours.

The longest platform in the world is at Kharagpur and is 2,733 ft. in length.

India’s first railway bridge is the Dapoorie Viaduct” on the Mumbai-Thane route.

India’s first Rail Tunnel is Parsik Tunnel.

Indian Railways' first electric train ran on February 3, 1925, between Bombay VT and Kurla.

Toilets on trains were introduced in 1891 in 1st class and in 1907 in lower classes.

42 Railway companies operated in the country before Independence.

Fairy Queen (1855) is the oldest locomotive in working order.

The manufacture of steam locomotives in the country stopped in 1972.

The first Rajdhani was introduced between Howrah and New Delhi on March 1, 1969.