Given here is a list providing some interesting and amazing facts about Indian Railways.

• The total distance covered by the 14,300 trains on the Indian Railways every day equals three & half times the distance to moon 
• The first train on Indian soil ran between Bombay and Thane on 16th April 1853  
• IR has about 63,028 route kms of track
• IR employs about 1.55 million people
• It carries over 13 million passengers & 1.3 million tons of freight everyday
• IR has about 7,000 railway stations. It runs about 14,300 trains daily
• The longest platform in the world is at Kharagpur and is 2,733 ft in length
• Nehru Setu on Sone River is the longest Railway bridge  
• 42 Railway companies operated in the country before independence
• Electric Locomotives are manufactured at Chittaranjan Locomotive Works, Chittaranjan
• Coaches are manufactured at ICF/Chennai, RCF/Kapurthala and BEML/Bangaluru
• The national Rail Museum at New Delhi was set-up in 1977
• People employed in Indian Railway are about 1.6 million  
• Stations across State Lines are Navapur (Maharashtra and Gujarat) and Bhawani Mandi (Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan
• Classes of travel on Indian Railway: Ist AC, 2nd AC, 3rd AC, AC Chair Car, 2nd sleeper & 2nd ordinary
• Railway Station with all the three gauges is Siliguri Railway Station