Following are the some of the important Indian Railway Facts

Following are the some of the important Indian Railway Facts


The total distance covered by the 14,300 trains on the Indian Railways everyday, equals three & half times the distance to moon

The first train on Indian soil ran between Bombay and Thane on the 16th of April 1853

IR has about 63,028 route kms. of track

IR 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

IR has about 7,000 railway stations

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

Nehru Setu on Sone River is the longest Railway bridge

42 Railway companies operated in the country before independence

Electric Locomotives are manufactured at Chittaranjan Locomotive Works, Chittaranjan

Coaches are manufactured at ICF/Chennai, RCF/Kapurthala and BEML/Bangaluru

The national Rail Museum at New Delhi was set-up in 1977

People Employed in Indian Railway are about 1.6 million

Stations across State Lines are Navapur (Maharashtra and Gujarat) and Bhawani Mandi (Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan)

Classes of travel on Indian Railway: Ist AC, 2nd AC, 3rd AC, AC Chair Car IInd sleeper & IInd ordinary

Railway Station with all the Three Gauges is Siliguri Railway Station