GK- Indian Railway

👉First Passenger Train Ran On ➖16th April 1853 (between Bombay to Thane)

👉First Railway Bridge ➖ Dapoorie Viaduct on the Mumbai-Thane route

👉First Rail Tunnel ➖ Parsik Tunnel

👉First Ghats Covered by the Rail lines ➖ Thal and Bhore Ghats

👉First Underground Railway ➖Calcutta METRO

👉 First Computerized Reservation System started in ➖New Delhi (1986)

👉First Electric Train ran on ➖ 3rd Feb' 1925 (between Bombay VT and Kurla)

👉Toilets on Trains were introduced in ➖ 1891 (1st Class) & 1907 (lower classes)


👉Shortest Station Name ➖ Ib (Orissa)

👉Longest Station Name ➖ Sri Venkatanarasimharajuvariapeta (Tamil Nadu)

👉 Busiest Railway Station ➖ Lucknow (64 trains everyday)

👉 Longest Run (Time) ➖Vivek Express (3715 km in Approx 71 hrs)

👉Shortest Run ➖ Route between Nagpur to Ajni (3km)

👉Longest Run for Daily Train ➖ Kerala Express (3054 km in 42.5 hrs)

👉Longest Non-Stop Run (Distance) ➖ Trivandrum Rajdhani (528 km in 6.5 hrs)

👉Longest Railway Platform in the World ➖ Gorakhpur

👉Longest Railway Bridge ➖Nehru Setu on Sone River (10044ft in length)

👉Longest Tunnel Karbude On ➖ Konkan Railway between Monkey hill & Khandala (6.5 km)

👉Oldest Preserved Locomotive ➖Fairy Queen (1855), still in working order

👉 Indian Railway's Fastest Train ➖ Bhopal-Shatabdi(runs at a speed up to 140 Km/ph)

🚉👉Train with Maximum Number of Halts ➖ Howrah-Amritsar Express (115 halts)