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Nation celebrates 162nd year of dedicated services from Indian Railways

The Indian Railways completes 162 years in service of the nation today. It also marks the anniversary of the first train-service between Mumbai and Thane-city, which was launched in the British-period in 1853.

The ministry-of-railways showed lot of enthusiasm in commemorating the anniversary. It has issued interesting photographs collection from the historical-archives. The photographs are marked as “162-years of Indian-Railways”

 

  • The first train had 3-steam engines which were named Sahib, Sultan and Sindh. The train-journey had lasted for 57-minutes and covered a distance of 21-miles.
  • The Indian-Railways is one of the largest networks of rails-transport-routes in the world. The network has 17-railway-zones. It is completely owned by the Government of India and run through the ministry-of-railways as the main parent organization.
  • The whole-network covers over 1, 15,000-Kms and still growing & expanding.
  • During the fiscal-year 2014-15, the organization earned revenue of more than 1600-Billion Indian-Rupees.




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