- The total distance covered by the 14,300 trains on the Indian Railways everyday, equals three & half times the distance to moon
- The first train on Indian soil ran between Bombay and Thane on the 16th of April 1853
- IR has about 63,028 route kms. of track
- IR employs about 1.55 million people
- It carries over 13 million passengers & 1.3 million tones of freight everyday
- It runs about 14,300 trains daily
- IR has about 7,000 railway stations
- The longest platform in the world is at Kharagpur and is 2,733 ft. in length
- Nehru Setu on Sone River is the longest Railway bridge
- 42 Railway companies operated in the country before independence
- Electric Locomotives are manufactured at Chittaranjan Locomotive Works, Chittaranjan
- Coaches are manufactured at ICF/Chennai, RCF/Kapurthala and BEML/Bangaluru
- The national Rail Museum at New Delhi was set-up in 1977
- People Employed in Indian Railway are about 1.6 million
- Stations across State Lines are Navapur (Maharashtra and Gujarat) and Bhawani Mandi (Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan)
- Classes of travel on Indian Railway: Ist AC, 2nd AC, 3rd AC, AC Chair Car IInd sleeper & IInd ordinary
- Railway Station with all the Three Gauges is Siliguri Railway Station
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 inNew 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 - (Orissa)
Longest Station Name - Venkatanarasimharajuvariapeta (Tamil Nadu)
Busiest Railway Station - know (64 trains everyday)
Longest Run (Time) - sagar Express (3751 km in 74 hrs and 55 min)
Shortest Run - te 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 WorldKharagpur (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 Railway's Fastest Train - Bhopal-Shatabdi (runs at a speed up to 140 Km/ph)
Train with Maximum Number of Halts - Howrah-Amritsar Express (115 halts)
