Indian Railways GK

1. First Passenger Train ran on ?
16th April 1853 (between Bombay to Thane)

2. First Railway Bridge ?
Dapoorie Viaduct on the Mumbai-Thane route

3.First Rail Tunnel ?
Parsik Tunnel

4. First Ghats Covered by the Rail lines?
Thal and Bhore Ghats

5.First Underground Railway ?
 Calcutta METRO

6.First Computerized Reservation System started in?
New Delhi (1986)

7.First Electric Train ran on ?
3rd Feb 1925 (between Bombay VT and Kurla)

8.Toilets on Trains were introduced in?
 1891 (1st Class) & 1907 (lower classes)

9.Shortest Station Name ?
Ib (Orissa)

10.Longest Station Name ?
Sri Venkatanarasimharajuvariapeta (Tamil Nadu)

11. Busiest Railway Station ?

 Lucknow (64 trains everyday)

12. Longest Run (Time) ?

Himsagar Express (3,751 km in 74 hrs and 55 min)

13.Shortest Run Route ?

between Nagpur to Ajni (3 km)

14.Longest Run for Daily Train?

 Kerala Express (3,054 km in 42.5 hrs)

15.Longest Non-Stop Run (Distance) ?

Trivandrum Rajdhani (528 km in 6.5 hrs)

16.Longest Railway Platform in the World ?

Kharagpur (2,733 ft in length) 

17. Longest Railway Bridge ?

Nehru Setu on Sone River (10,044 ft in length) 

18. Longest Tunnel ?

Khandala (6.5 km, 2,100 metres)  

19.Oldest Preserved Locomotive ?

 Fairy Queen (1855), still in working order 

20. Indian Railways Fastest Train?

 Bhopal-Shatabdi (runs at a speed up to 140 km/hr) 

21.Train with Maximum Number of Halts?

 Howrah-Amritsar Express (115 halts) 

22.Trains without Commercial Halts?

 Sampoorna Kranti Express, Howrah Rajdhani,

23.  Bhawani Mandi Stations across State Lines: (Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan)