♥ 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 1366.33 metres ( U.P. )
♥ 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)
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