Some Facts about Indian Railway

1. Oldest Preserved Locomotive------Fairy Queen (1855), still in working order

2. Daily Runs-----About 10,000 trains

3. Daily Carries-----More than 11 million passengers & 1 million tonnes of freight

4. Railway Station with all the Three Gauges------Siliguri Railway Station

5. People Employed-------About 1.6 million people, fourth largest employer in World

6. Train with Maximum Number of Halts-----Howrah-Amritsar Express (115 halts)

7. Stations across State Lines------Navapur (Maharashtra and Gujarat), Bhawani Mandi (Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan)

8. Northernmost railway station------Baramulla in Jammu and Kashmir

9. Western most station------Naliya near Bhuj in Gujarat

10. Southernmost railway station-----Kanyakumari

11. East most railway station------Ledo on branch line from Tinsukia

12. Least punctual train-------Guwahati-Trivandrum Express is said to be the most unreliable long-distance train in the country.

The charted journey time is 65 hours and 5 minutes, but the average delay on a trip is about 10-12 hours.

13. Longest non-stop travel/ Trains with most stops------Trivandrum - H. Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express travels the 528km stretch between Vadodara and Kota non-stop

14. First electric locomotive-------1908

15. UNESCO World Heritage Sites------Chat rapati Shivaji Terminus and the Mountain Railways of ( Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, a

narrow gauge railway in West Bengal)

16. First double Decker train------Flying Rani introduced in 2005

17. Largest railway complex in India-----Howrah Station

18. Train crosses the largest number of states------Navyug express between Mangalore and Jammu Tawi

19. Train crossed maximum number of zones------Ernakulam-Barauni

20. The largest distance entirely in one state------Kolhapur-Gondia Maharashtra Exp,