First/Longest/Oldest in Indian Railways First Passenger Train Ran On 16th April 1853 (between Bombay to Thane) First Railway Bridge Dapoorie Viaduct on the Mumbai-Thane route First Rail Tunnel Parsik Tunnel First Ghats Covered by the Rail lines Thal and Bhore Ghats First Underground Railway Calcutta METRO First Computerized Reservation System started in New Delhi (1986) First Electric Train ran on 3rd Feb 1925 (between Bombay VT and Kurla) Toilets on Trains were introduced in 1891 (1st Class) & 1907 (lower classes) Shortest Station Name Ib (Orissa) Longest Station Name Sri Venkatanarasimharajuvariapeta (Tamil Nadu) Busiest Railway Station Lucknow (64 trains everyday) Longest Run (Time) Vivek Express (3715 km in Approx 71 hrs) Shortest Run Route between Nagpur to Ajni (3km) Longest Run for Daily Train Kerala Express (3054 km in 42.5 hrs) Longest Non-Stop Run (Distance) Trivandrum Rajdhani (528 km in 6.5 hrs) Longest Railway Platform in the World Kharagpur (2,733 ft in length) Longest Railway Bridge Nehru Setu on Sone River (10044ft in length) Longest Tunnel Karbude On Konkan Railway between Monkey hill & Khandala (6.5 km) Oldest Preserved Locomotive Fairy Queen (1855), still in working order Indian Railways Fastest Train Bhopal-Shatabdi (runs at a speed up to 140 Km/ph) Train with Maximum Number of Halts Howrah-Amritsar Express (115 halts)
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