Indian Railways Notes for Competative Exams

• Indian Railway is the second largest railway system in Asia

• Indian Railway is the second largest electrified railway system in the world (first- Russia)

• Indian Railway is known as "The life line of India"

• Indian Railways was earlier known as - Great Indian Peninsular Railway

• Father of Indian Railway - Lord Dalhousie

• Indian Railway started its first train service on-16 April 1853 (Bombay-Thane, 34 Km)

• Indian Railway Act was passed in 1890 

• Indian Railway Board was established in - 1905 

• Indian Railway was nationalised in 1951

• Headquarters of Indian Railway Baroda House (New Delhi) 

• First Railway Minister of Independent India -John Mathai

• First railway in the world- Stockton - Darlington railway in U.K (1825)

• First Railway budget in Independent India was presented by John Mathai

• First elected Railway Minister - Lal Bahadur Shastri

• Present Railway Minister of India -Piyush Goyal 

• Present Railway Board Chairman - Vinod Kumar Yadav

• Indian Railway Museum is situated at Chanakyapuri (New Delhi)

• 18 railway zones

Eastern Railway	Kolkata
Western Railway	Mumbai (Churchgate)
Northern Railway	New Delhi
Southern Railway	Chennai
East Central Railway	Hajipur
West Central Railway	Jabalpur
North Central Railway	Allahabad
South Central Railway	Secunderabad
North East Railway	Gorakhpur
North West Railway	Jaipur
South East Railway	Kolkata
South West Railway	Hubli
Central Railway	Mumbai CSMT
Northeast Frontier Railway	Guwahati
South East Central Railway	Bilaspur
East Coast Railway	Bhubaneswar
South Coast Railway	Visakhapatnam
Metro Railway	Park Street, Kolkata

       

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