Amazing Facts about Indian Railways

June 2nd, 2009 |

Indian the railroads is what interests you then you certainly the need to pass by some of the interesting facts approximately one of the wide-area networks of rail in the world: travel

The Indian railroads has the longest railway platform in the world at Kharagpur with a 2.733 pi length length.

The toilets made an introduction into the trains only in 1891 in the first class and took sixteen more years to reach the low compartments of class.

The station with the longest name is Sri Venkatanarasimharajuvariapeta in TamilNadu and the shortest name of station is Ib in Orissa.

The Indian railroads always has the engine preserved oldest in the order of maintenance, the fairy-like queen who was made with back in manner in 1855.

Indian Railways is spread across length and breadth of the entire country covering a total of 39, 233 miles and in terms of infrastructure operates more than 14,444 trains backed by 7,739 locomotives and 39,263 coaches. The longest train journey that you can experience on Indian Railways is the HimSagar Express that runs between Jammu Tawi and KanyaKumari covering a whopping distance of 4,751 km within a time period of 66 hours. To its credit it even has the longest platform in the world at Kharagpur measuring 2,733 ft in length. Also in case you are looking forward to revisit the British Raj era then you should definitely travel on the Fairy Queen that was started more than hundred years ago in 1855. Hopefully you would have a good time traveling on the Indian Railways.