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