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Subject: Indian Railways Facts.
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aks700 28.05.12 - 01:08am
Hope you read 'Amazing Facts about India' now it's time to know Indian railways. *
aks700 28.05.12 - 01:11am
The total distance
covered by the 14,300
trains on the Indian
Railways everyday, equals
three & half times the
distance to moon. *
aks700 28.05.12 - 01:12am
The first train on Indian
soil ran between Bombay
and Thane on the 16th of
April 1853. *
aks700 28.05.12 - 01:13am
Indian Railways has about 63,028 route
kms. of track
*
aks700 28.05.12 - 01:15am
It carries over 13 million
passengers & 1.3 million
tones of freight everyday
. *
aks700 28.05.12 - 01:15am
Indian Railways employs about 1.55
million people
.
*
aks700 28.05.12 - 01:17am
IR runs about 14,300
trains daily.
*
aks700 28.05.12 - 01:19am
IR has about 7,000 railway
stations *
aks700 28.05.12 - 01:21am
The longest platform in
the world is at Kharagpur
and is 2,733 ft. in length
.
*
aks700 28.05.12 - 01:22am
Nehru Setu on Sone River
is the longest Railway
bridge
.
*
aks700 28.05.12 - 01:23am
42 Railway companies
operated in the country
before independence. *
aks700 28.05.12 - 01:24am
The national Rail Museum
at New Delhi was set-up in
1977
. *
beauty53 21.11.12 - 07:44am
Was chatting about the railway's that run through ur mountain ranges with another member here, last week. What i didnt ask was whether they have tunnels on the routes through them to safeguard against possible land and mud slides/ avalanches? *
aks700 24.11.12 - 02:09pm
Yes, IR Has many railway tunnel.... India is one & only sub-continent, where you can see all the physical featurers in different parts of the country so tunnels are important if railway is spread every where in India. *
