Amazing Facts about
Indian Railways
Indian Railway is constructing the highest
rail bridge over Chenab, in J&K
Five times the height of
Qutub Minar, it will be taller than the Eiffel Tower.
Loco-pilots (train
drivers) are paid more than an average software engineer
Salaries are the
tune of Rs. 1 Lakh per month and more.
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
Hourly traffic
on IRTC.com is more than annual traffic of some of the most popular Indian
websites. It can support almost 5 million threads at one time. But, we’ve got
more people than that.
The slowest train goes
uphill at the speed of 10 kilometers per hour
You can jump off
the train, light up a smoke, take few drags and climb on the train again. It’s
the Mettupalayam Ooty Nilgiri Passenger train.
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 in the old days, elephants were used to
position the cartridges
Its 161 years old!
16th April, 1853. That’s a long time ago
The station with the longest name is Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta
And it’s sometimes spelled with
‘Sri’ prefixed. Quite a mouthful.
Most unreliable train in Indian Railways is Guwahati-Trivandrum Express
It is late on an average
by ten to twelve hours. Gosh!
The longest tunnel in
the country is 11.215 kilometers long!
It is the Pir Panjal Railway tunnel in Jammu and Kashmir.
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
It’s between the Nagpur and Ajni station.
A train covers a
distance of 528 km without a single stop
It’s Trivandrum – H. Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express.
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
That’s nearly the total population of New Zealand,
Australia and Tasmania put together!
The Rail Museum in
Delhi is the largest in Asia
It has working and non-working
models both.
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