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INDIAN RAILWAY Notes for PSC SSC UPSC Railway

Indian railway is known as

Ans : “The life line of india”

Indian Railway is the second largest railway system in Asia

Indian railway is the fourth largest railway network in the world after that of U.S.A, Russia and China.

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

Indian Railways was earlier known as

Ans : Great Indian Peninsular Railway.

Father of Indian Railway

Ans : Lord Dalhousie

Indian Railway started its first train service on

Ans : 16^th April 1853 (Bombay-Thane, 34 Km)

Indian Railway is the biggest public sector in India.

Indian Railway Act was passed in

Ans : 1890

Indian Railway Board was established in

Ans : 1905

Indian railway was nationalised in

Ans : 1951

Headquarters of Indian Railway

Ans : Baroda house (New Delhi)

Present Railway Board Chairman

Ans : Vinay Kumar Tripathi

First city which started Mono rail in India

Ans : Mumbai (2014)

Drinking water project of Indian Railway – Railneer

The monthly Magazine of Indian Railway –

Ans : Indian Railways, Rail Bandhu

The first computerised reservation system in India started in

Ans : New Delhi (1986)

Internet train reservation started in India in

Ans : 2002

First railway hospital in India started in the year-

Ans : 1991 (Life Line Express)

Rail Credit Card system was started in

Ans : 1999

The first electric train in India –

Ans : ‘Deccan Queen’

The first double decker train in India

Ans : Sinhagad Express (Bombay -Punne)

First superfast train in India

Ans : Delhi -Howrah Rajadhani express

First Ladies special train was introduced between

Ans :  Churchgate to Virar

Indian Railway institute of Civil Engineering

Ans : Pune (Maharashtra)

Indian Institute of Railway signal Engineering and telecommunication

Ans : Secunderabad

Indian Railway Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering

Ans : Jamalpur

Indian Railway Institute of Electric Engineering

Ans : Nasik

Indian Railway Institute of Transport Management

Ans : Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh)

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The Government has decided to merge Rail budget with the Union budget from budget year – 2017 – 18.

The merged budget was presented on

Ans : 2^nd February 2016 (presented by Arun Jaitley)

The committee which recommended the merger of budgets – Bibek Debroy Committee

The year in which railway budget was separated from general budget

Ans : 1924

Separation of Railway budget from Union budget is based on the recommendation of

Ans : Acworth Committee

Ans : Elephant named Bholu

First Railway Minister of independent India

Ans : John Mathai

First railway budget in independent India was presented by

Ans : John Mathai

The second keralite , who served as union Railway Minister

Ans : Panambilly Govinda Menon

First elected Railway Minister

Ans : Lal Bahadur Sasthri

First railway line opened in South India in

Ans : 1856 (Madras Railway Company)

The first railway station in South India Royapuram (Madras – Arcot)

The non – stop source to destination rail service in India

Ans : Duronto Express (2009)

Total number of railway zones in India

Ans : 19

First railway zone in India

Ans : Southern Zone (14^th April 1951)

19^th Railway zone

Ans : Kolkata Zone (Independent zone)

Kerala belongs to the railway zone

Ans : Southern Zone

Indian railway museum is situated at Chanakyapuri (New Delhi)

Railway staff college is at

Ans : Vadodara, Gujarat

First railway in the world

Ans : Stockton – Darlington railway in U.K (1825)

First woman station master in India

Ans : Rinku Sinha Roy

First woman loco pilot in India

Ans : Surekha Bhosale

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The First metro rai1way in lndia is in

Ans : Kolkata (1984)

The second metro rail is  India

Ans : New Delhi

The first metro railway in south India is  in

Ans : Bengaluru (20^th October 2011)

Bangalore metro is also known as

Ans : Namma Metro

Kochi metro Began operation: 17 June 2017

Kanpur Metro Began operation:

28 December 2021

Pune metro Began operation-

MahaMetro : 06 March 2022 (latest)

Total 15 metros.

Most number of Metro lines are in Maharashtra

Longest metroline : Delhi

First metro train to be made in India

Ans : Movia

First fully privately project metro project in India

Ans : Gurgaon’s rapid metro

Kalka-Shimla Railway is a narrow gauge railway in the Shivalik mountains in Himachal Pradesh.

Train which connects New Delhi with other state capitals – Rajadhani Express

World’s oldest steam locomotive is-

Ans : Fairy Queen (New Delhi – Alwar)

Slowest running train in India

Ans : Nilgiri passenger train of Nilgiri

Mountain railway (Mettupalayam – Ootty, 10 Kmph))

The country that helps to build the first bullet train in India

Ans : Japan

The first bullet train will run between

Ans : Mumbai & Ahemedahad

Longest bullet train in the world that started service in China 

Ans : Shangri-la of the World

The first service of Indian Railway’s double ducker AC satabdi train was on –

Ans : 6^th December 2015 (Goa – Mumbai)

Rajadhani express train started its service in

Ans : 1969

Jan Shatabdi express trains started its service in

Ans : 2002

Vivek express started its service in

Ans : 2011

Konkan railway links Mangalore with Roha in Maharashtra.

Headquarters of Konkan Railway

Ans : Belapur ( Maharashtra)

Length of Konkan railway

Ans : 760 km.

RORO train is meant for simplifying the transportation of goods in Konkan Railway.

Konkan Railway was commissioned in

Ans : 1998 (A.B Vajpayee)

Longest tunnel in Konkan Railway

Ans : Karbude Tunnel (2^nd longest tunnel in India)

The distance between two rails of a  railroad is known as

Ans : Guage

Broadguage length = 1.676m.

Meter guage = 1 m

Narrow guage = 0.762 m

Broad guage is the most widely used railguage in Indian railway route.

First narrow guage railway in British India

Ans : Gaekwar’s Baroda State Railway (1862)

World’s longest narrow guage railway Gwalior – Sheopur (The Maharaja Railways) (198 km)

The only railway station in India with all the three gauges

Ans : Siliguri Junction railway station

First indigenously built train under the ‘Make in India’ campaign

Ans : Medha

First long distance fully unreserved superfast train service

Ans : Antyodaya Express

(Howrah-Emakulam)

First MEMU service in India – 1991-92 (Raipur – Durg)

MEMU – Mainline Electric Multiple Unit

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation was set up in

Ans : 1995

The term Fish Plate is related with railway.

India’s first Braille – embedded train

Ans : Mysuru – Varanasi express

Indian Railway’s proposed special wing for Research – SRESHTA (Special Railway Establishment for Strategic Technology and Holistic Advancement)

First rail tunnel in Inda – Parsik tunnel

Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus was formerly known as – Victoria Terminus

Longest Railway tunnel in India – Pir Panjai

Railway Tunnel (Jammu & Kashmir)

Another name of Pir Panchal Railway Tunnel – Banihal Railway Tunnel

First luxurious train service in South India

Ans : Golden Chariot

Thar express operates between –

Ans : Jodhpur (India) & Karachi (Pakistan)

The longest railway platform in the world

Ans : Gorakhpur (Uttarpradesh)

The highest railway station in India

Ans : Ghum railway station (Darjeeling) 

Longest service train in India

Ans : Vivek Express (Dibrugarh to Kanyakumari)

Train service which passess through most number of states

Ans : Navayug Express (14 states)

(Mangalore-Jammu Tawi)

Children special  train started in Jammu-Kashritir recently-Vaadi ki sair (From Banihal to Barmulla)

India’s first Caterpillar train is going to be started in

Ans : Haryana

Fastest train in India

Ans : Vande Bharat

First   run of Vande Bharat train was between

Ans : Delhi -Varanasi

South Indians first run of Vande Bharat express is:

Mysore – Bangalore (13-11-2022 Inaugurated by Prime minister Narendra Modi)

Colour ordinary trains- Blue

Rajadhani express – Red

Sathabdi express – Blue, Yellow

Garib express – Green, Yellow

1.Central Railway (CR)- Mumbai CST

2.Eastern Railway (ER)-Kolkata

3.Northern Railway (NR)-New Delhi

4.North Eastern Railway (NER)-Gorakhpur

5.North-East Frontier Railway (NFR) -Guwahati

6.Southern Railway (SR)-Chennai

7.South Central Raiway (SCR) -Secunderabad

8. South Eastern Railway (SBR) -Kolkata

9.Western Railway (WR)-Mumbai

10.East Central Railway (ECR) -Hajipur –

11.East Coast Railway (ECoR) -Bhubaneshwar

12.North Central Railway (NCR) -Allahabad.

13.North Western Railway (NWR)-Jaipur

14.South Western Railway (SWR)-Hubli

15.South East Central Railway (SECR) -Bilaspur

16.West Central Railway (WCR) -Jabalpur

17.Kolkata Metro (JCMR) –(Independent zone)

18.South cost railway -Visakhapatanam

19.Konkan railway: Navi Mumbai

The train with two coaches introduced for Indian President’s train journey

Ans : The Presidential Saloon

First President to travel by presidential saloon

Ans : Dr. Rajendra Prasad

The presidential saloon was last used by

Ans : Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

UNESCO World Heritage sites in Indian railway – Darjeeling – Himalayan Railway (1999), Nilgiri Mountain railway (2005), Kalka – Shimla railway (2008)

AIDS awareness campaign train service of Indian Railways

Ans : Red Ribbon Express

Train Service which started to commemorate 150^th birth anniversary of ‘Swami Vivekananda’

Ans : Vivek Express

Exhibition train service launched to mark the 150^th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore

Ans : Sanskriti Express

Train service which started to commemorate 150^th birth anniversary of

Ans : Kaviguru express

An exhibition train to commemorate the birth centenary of Mother Teresa

Ans : Mother Express

Train service started to commemorate 100^th birth anniversary-of Jawaharlal Nehru

Ans : Shatabdi Express

The tram service named after Pandit Mandan Mohan Malavya

Ans : Mahamana express (Varanasi – Delhi)

First toy train in India started its service in

Ans : Darjeeling

First mountain railway in India

Ans : Darjeeling Himalayan railway (1881)

Darjeeling – Himalayan Railway also known as

Ans : Toy train  (The Daijeeling Himalayan Railway is a narrow guage railway in West Bengal)

The train that services through the tourist centers of Gujarat and Rajasthan

Ans : Royal Orient Train

Train Services through the tourist destinations in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Goa introduced by Government of Karnataka

Ans : Golden Chariot 

The luxurious train that services through the tourist centres of Maharashtra

Ans : Deccan Odyssey

The luxurious tourist train service in Rajasthan

Ans : ‘Palace on Wheels’

The tourist train connecting historical Buddhist pilgrimage places introduced in 1999

Ans : Buddha Parikrama Express

The Tourist train connecting the Sikh Pilgrim centres

Ans : Guru Parikrama

Northern most railway station

Ans : Baramulla (Jammu Kashmir)

Eastern most railway station

Ans : Lekhapani (Assam)

Western most railway station

Ans : Naliya (Gujarat)

Southern most railway station

Ans : Kanyakumari

First train service to Tripura

Ans : Tripura Sundari express

Tripura Sundari express connects –

Ans : Agarthala – Delhi

The first passenger train in Meghalaya ran between Mendipathar to Guwahati (131 km) flagged off by –

Ans : Narendra Modi (2014)

The only one state without railway line

Ans : Sikkim

Maitree express travels between Kolkata and Dhaka.

Samjhotha express and Thar express are the two train services which conduct service between India and Pakistan.

The first hospital on wheels, in the world ‘Life Line Express’ (Jeevan Rekha) to provide Medical Aid was introduced by Indian railway in 1991

‘VIGYAN RAIL’ is a special exhibition train designed by the Ministry of Science and Technology in collaboration with the Ministiy of Railways.

Fore runner of Buddha parikrama Express “The great Indian Rover” (Stopped in 1980)

Major institutions under Indian railway

1.Rail India Technical and Economics Services Limited (RITES)-Gurgon

2.Indian Railway Construction Company Limited (IRCON)-New Delhi

3.Container Corporation of India Limited (CONCOR)-New Delhi

4.Konkan Railway Corporation Limited (KRC)-Belapur (Navi Mumbai)

5.Centre for Railway Information System (CRIS)-Chanakyaprui (New Delhi)

6.National Rail Museum-Chanakyaprui (New Delhi)

7.Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC)-New Delhi

8.Rail Tel Corporation of India Ltd-New Delhi

Committee set up by Union Government to study the ways and means to raise revenue of Indian Railways

Ans : D.K. Mittal Committee

Present Union Railway Minister

Ans : Aswini Vaishnav

Main production units of Indian Railway

1.Chittaranjan Locomotive works Chittaranjan (Produces electric engines)

2.Diesel Locomotive works-Varanasi

3.Integral Coach Factory-Perambur (Chennai)

4.Rail Coach Factory – Kapurthala

5.Rail Wheel Factory Yelehanka (Bengaluru)

6.Diesel Loco Modernisation Works -Patiala

Honesty SSC notes