Amazing Facts About The Indian Railways Everybody

Should Know

Indian Railway is constructing the highest rail bridge over Chenab, in J&K

Loco-pilots (train drivers) are paid more than an average software engineer

No loco-pilot has abandoned the train even in the face of certain death

The Indian Railways website gets close to 12 Lakh hits per minute

The slowest train goes uphill at the speed of 10 kilometers per hour

If the tracks of Indian railways were to be laid out, they would circle the earth almost

1.5 times

The trains got toilets after Indian Railways

completed about 50 years!

Back then, passengers had to wait till the next station to answer the call of nature!

Thank Okhil Chandra for making Indian Railways do the needful. He wrote the following letter to Indian Railways and finally, there were toilets in 1909!

Back in the old days, elephants were used to position the cartridges

Its 161 years old!

The station with the longest name is Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta

Most unreliable train in Indian Railways is Guwahati-Trivandrum Express

The longest tunnel in the country is 11.215 kilometers long!

The station with the smallest name is called ‘IB ’: It’s in Odisha

Before installing Automatic Point System was installed, hundreds of guards lost their hands and fingers trying to fix it manually.

Every time a train got delayed and we complained, an Indian Railways employee

probably lost his limbs for us

The longest running train covers a distance of 4273 km between Dibrugarh and

Kanyakumari: It’s called the Vivek Express

The shortest distance covered between two successive stations is 3 kilometers

A train covers a distance of 528 km without a single stop

Lucknow is the busiest junction in the nation: 64 trains come in and move out,

every day

A massively successful organization – running 11,000 trains in a day is no joke!

Indian Railways transports almost 2.5 crore passengers daily

The Rail Museum in Delhi is the largest in Asia

The railway station of Navapur is built in two states; half in Maharashtra and the

rest is in Gujarat

Indian Railways has a mascot – Bholu, the Guard Elephant

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