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,
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