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Interesting Facts about Indian Railways

  • Shortest station name: Ib near Jharsuguda on the Howrah-Nagpur main line(South Eastern Railway.
  • · Longest station name: Venkatanarasimharajuvariapeta often prefixed with Sri.on the Arakkonam-Renigunta section of the Southern Railway.
  • · Longest run (time): The Himsagar Express running between Jammu Tawi and Kanyakumari, It covers its route of 3751km in 74 hours and 55 minutes.
  • · Longest run for daily train: The Kerala Express has daily service and covers3054 km in its run (in 42.5 hours).
  • · Longest non-stop run (distance): The Trivandrum Rajdhani does not have atechnical halt at Ratlam and, therefore, travels non-stop between Vadodara and Kota(528km), covering the stretch in about 6.5 hours.
  • · Trains with no commercial halts en route: Sampoorna Kranti Exp,HowrahRajdhani, Bombay Rajdhani, Pragati Exp and Pune Shatabdi
  • · Shortest runs: Nagpur - Ajni has scheduled services that are just 3km in distance.This is mainly a service for crew to travel from Nagpur station to the workshop at Ajni.
  • · Highest number of halts: Mail and Express trains [3/99] The Howrah-AmritsarExp. leads in this category with 115 halts.
  • · Busiest Station: Lucknow which caters to as many as 64 trains per day.
  • · Stations straddling state lines: Navapur is a station that is half in Maharashtraand half in Gujarat . Bhawani Mandi station, on the Shamgarh-Kota section of theBombay-Delhi line is half in Madhya Pradesh and half in Rajasthan.
  • · Station with all the three gauges: Siliguri station.
     
    Indian Railways runs aroun
    d 11,000 trains everyday, of which 7,000 are passenger trains
     
    7566 -  locomotives
    37,840  -  Coaching vehicles
    222,147 -  Freight wagons
    6853  -  Stations 
    300  - Yards
    2300  -  Good sheds
    700  -  Repair shops
    1.54 million - Work force
     
     
    Track Kilometers
    Broad Gauge
    (1676 mm)
    Meter Gauge
    (1000 mm)
    Narrow Gauge (762/610 mm)
    Total
    86,526
    18,529
    3,651
    108,706
    Route Kilometers
    Electrified
    Total
     
     
    16,001
    63,028
     
     

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