INDIAN RAILWAY . . . . . . THE GOELDEN ERA


INDIAN RAILWAY . . . . . . THE GOELDEN ERA


The first railway on the Indian sub- continent ran over a stretch of 21 miles from Bombay to thane. The ides of a railway to connect Bombay with thane, kalian and with the thal and bhore Ghats inclines first occurred to MR.GEORGE CLARK, THE CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE BOMBAY GOVERNEMENT, during a visit to bhandup in 1843.

The formal inauguration ceremony was performed on 16th April 1853, when 14 railway carriages carrying about 400 guests left bori bunder at 3.30 pm “amidst the applause of a vast multitude and to the salute of 21 guns.”

The first passenger train steamed out of Howrah station destined for Hooghly a distance of 24 miles, on 15th august, thus the first section of the East Indian railway was opened to public traffic, inaugurating the beginning of the railway transport on the eastern side of the sub-continent.

In south the first line was opened on 1st July, 1856 by the Madras railway company.it ran between veyasrspandy and walajah road [Arcot],a distance of distance of 63 miles.in the north a length of 119 miles of line was laid a Allahabad to Kanpur on 3rd march 1859.the first section from Hathras road to Mathura Cantonment was opened to traffic on 19th October, 1875.

These were the small beginnings which is due course developed into a network of railway lines all over the country. By 1880 the Indian railway system had a route mileage of 9000 miles.

:: OTHER INTERESTING FACTS OF THE INDIAN RAILWAYS ::


 An Indian railway runs around 11000 trains everyday of which 7000 are passenger trains.

 7566 – locomotives, 37840 – coaching vehicles

 222,147 – freight wagons, 6853 – stations

 300 – yards, 2300 – good sheds

 700 – workshops shops, 1.54 million – work forces

 Indian railways is a multi-gauge, multi traction system covering the following :-

TRACK [KM] : 1,08,706 KM

• Broad Gauge [1676 mm] - 86,526 km

• Meter Gauge [1000 mm] - 18,529 km

• Narrow Gauge [762/610 mm] - 3651 km

ROUTE [KM] : 63,028 KM

• Electrified - 16,001 kmA

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