23 amazing facts about indian railways you never know 😀 1. Indian Railway is constructing the highest rail bridge over Chenab, in J&K. Five times the height of Qutub Minar, it will be taller than the Eiffel Tower. 2. Loco-pilots (train drivers) are paid more than an average software engineer Salaries are the tune of Rs. 1 Lakh per month and more. 3. No loco-pilot has abandoned the train even in the face of certain death 4. The Indian Railways website gets close to 12 Lakh hits per minute Hourly traffic on IRTC is more than annual traffic of some of the most popular Indian websites. It can support almost 5 million threads at one time. But, we’ve got more people than that. Hence the never ending trolls. 5. The slowest train goes uphill at the speed of 10 kilometers per hour You can jump off the train, light up a smoke, take few drags and climb on the train again. It’s the Mettupalayam Ooty Nilgiri Passenger train. 6. If the tracks of Indian railways were to be laid out, they would circle the earth almost 1.5 times 7. The trains got toilets after Indian Railways completed about 50 years! Back then, passengers had to wait till the next station to answer the call of nature! Thank Okhil Chandra for making Indian Railways do the needful. He wrote a letter to Indian Railways and finally, there were toilets in 1909! 8. Back in the old days, elephants were used to position the carriages 9. Indian Railways is 161 years old! 16 th April, 1853. That’s a long time ago. 10. The station with the longest name is Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta And it’s sometimes spelled with ‘Sri’ prefixed. Quite a mouthful. 11. Most unreliable train in Indian Railways is Guwahati-Trivandrum Express It is late on an average by ten to twelve hours. Gosh! 12. The longest tunnel in the country is 11.215 kilometers long! It is the Pir Panjal Railway tunnel in Jammu and Kashmir. 13. The station with the smallest name is called ‘IB ’: It’s in Odisha 14. Before installing Automatic Point System was installed, hundreds of guards lost their hands and fingers trying to fix it manually. Every time a train got delayed and we complained, an Indian Railways employee probably lost his limbs for us 15. The longest running train covers a distance of 4273 km between Dibrugarh and Kanyakumari: It’s called the Vivek Express 16. The shortest distance covered between two successive stations is 3 kilometers It’s between the Nagpur and Ajni station. 17. A train covers a distance of 528 km without a single stop It’s Trivandrum – H. Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express. 18. Lucknow is the busiest junction in the nation: 64 trains come in and move out, every day 19. A massively successful organization – running 11,000 trains 20. Indian Railways transports almost 2.5 crore passengers daily 21. The Rail Museum in Delhi is the largest in Asia It has working and non-working models both. 22. The railway station of Navapur is built in two states; half in Maharashtra and the rest is in Gujarat 23. Indian Railways has a mascot – Bholu, the Guard Elephant
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 11:47:41 +0000
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