What was the Revolution of Indian Railway ?

Ernakulam HNizamudin Duronto is the longest running Duronto express in Indian Railways.

Loco-pilots are paid more than an average software engineer in India.

If the tracks of Indian railways were to be laid out, they would circle the earth almost 1.5 times.

Indian Railways is a massively successful organization running 11,000 train in a day.

Mathura junction has the maximum number of routes emerging from it.

The Diamond crossing in Nagpur is one-of-its-kind in India, from where trains go East, West, North and South.

Howrah-Amritsar Express has 115 stops, the record maximum for an Express train.

The Guwahati Thiruvananthapuram Express holds the record for being the most unreliable long-distance train on the Indian Railways network.

The IRCTC (Indian Railways Catering & Tourism Corporation) website gets close to 12 lakh hits per minute.

The Railway station of Navapur is built in 2 states; one half of it is in Maharashtra and the other half is in Gujarat.

Train services between Nagpur and Ajni, situated just 3km apart, form the shortest route.

The Trains got toilets after Indian Railways completed about 50 years.

Indian Railways launched an awareness campaign train on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2007, called the Red Ribbon Express.

The Famed Darjeeling toy train, which is still running on its indigenous steam engine, was built by India’s British colonial master in 1881.

World Heritage sites 4 Indian Railways sites and 5 Mountain Railways.

Red Ribbon Express is an AIDS/HIV awareness campaign train by the Indian Railways, launched in India on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2007.

Ahmedabad Mumbai Central Double Decker Express is India’s first double Decker train.

Fastest train in India: New Delhi-Bhopal Shatabdi Express is the fastest train in India. The all air-conditioned superfast train clocks a maximum speed of 150km/h on the Faridabad-Agra section. It also has the highest commercial speed – 89.87 km/h- and covers the 704 km New Delhi – Bhopal stretch in 7 hours 50 minutes

Slowest train in India: Metupalayam Ooty Nilgiri Passenger which runs at a speed of 10kmph, 15 times slower than fastest running train. Since this train runs in hilly region there are speed limits to comply. The one that comes close is Pratapnagar-Jambusar passenger, with a maximum speed of 12km/h and an average speed of 11km/h. It takes 4 hrs for a journey of 44 km.

Longest run by a train: Vivek Express from Dibrugarh to Kanyakumari travels a distance of 4273 km, making it the longest run in terms of total time and distance in Indian Railways.

Shortest run by a train: Scheduled services between Nagpur and Ajni stations situated just 3km from each other – primarily meant for crew to travel from Nagpur station to the workshop at Ajni.

Longest non-stop travel: Trivandrum – H. Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express travels the 528km stretch between Vadodara and Kota non-stop. In second place is the Mumbai Rajdhani Express that travels nonstop between New Delhi and Kota.

Longest station name: Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta on the Arakkonam-Renigunta section near Chennai.

Shortest station name: Ib, near Jharsuguda in Odisha and Od, near Anand in Gujarat.

Trains with most stops: The record for maximum number of stops by an Express/Mail train is held by Howrah – Amritsar Express 115 halts, followed by Delhi – Howrah Janata Express 109 halts and Jammu Tawi – Sealdah Express 99 halts.