GK Question: Indian Railway
Southern Railway
Head Quarters: Chennai:
Division: Chennai, Tiruchirappalli, Madurai, Salem, Palakkad, Thiruvananthapuram
Central Railway:
Head Quarters: Mumbai
Division: Mumbai,CST, Bhusawal, Pune, Solapur and Nagpur
Western Railway:
Head Quarters: Mumbai
Division: Mumbai,Central, Ratlam, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Bhavnagar and Vadodara
Eastern Railway:
Head Quarters: Kolkata
Division: Howrah, Sealdah, Asansol and Malda Town
Northern Railway:
Head Quarters: Delhi
Division: Delhi, Ambala, Firozpur, Lucknow and Moradabad
North Eastern Railway:
Head Quarters: Gorakhpur
Division: Izzatnagar, Lucknow and Varanasi
South Eastern Railway:
Head Quarters: Kolkata
Division: Adra, Chakradharpur, Kharagpur and Ranchi
Northeast Frontier Railway:
Head Quarters: Maligaon
Division: Alipurduar, Katihar, Rangia, Lumding and
Tinsukia
South Central:
Head Quarters: Secunderabad
Division: Vijayawada, Secunderabad, Guntakal, Guntur, Hyderabad and Nanded
East Central:
Head Quarters: Hajipur
Division: Danapur, Dhanbad, Mughalsarai, Samasti
pur and Sonpur
North Western:
Head Quarters: Jaipur
Division: Jaipur, Ajmer, Bikaner and Jodhpur
East Coast:
Head Quarters: Bhubaneswar
Division: Khurda Road, Sambalpur and
Visakhapatnam
North Central :
Head Quarters: Allahabad
Division: Allahabad, Agra and Jhansi
South East Central:
Head Quarters: Bilaspur
Division: Bilaspur, Raipur and Nagpur
South Western:
Head Quarters: Hubli
Division: Hubli, Bangalore, Mysore and Gulbarga
West Central:
Head Quarters: Jabalpur
Division: Jabalpur, Bhopal and Kota
Indian Railway Track:
Track – Distance between rails
Narrow Gauge – 762mm/610mm
Metre Gauge – 1000mm
Broad Gauge – 1676mm
Manufacturing Unit:
Rail Wheel Plant: Chhapra, Bihar
Rail Wheel Factory: Bangalore, Karnataka
Rail Coach Factory: Kapurthala, Punjab
Rail Coach Factory: Raebareli, UP
Integral Coach Factory: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Diesel Locomotive Works: Varanasi, UP
Diesel Loco Modernisation Works: Patiala, Punjab
Diesel Component Factory: Dankuni, West Bengal
Chittaranjan Locomotive Works: Chittaranjan, West Bengal
Central Organisation for Railway
Electrification:
Allahabad, UP
Luxury Train and Routes
Royal Rajasthan on Wheels:
Rajasthan Tourism
Delhi – Jaipur – Jaisalmer – Jodhpur – Sawai – Madhopur –
Chittorgarh – Udaipur – Bharatpur – Agra – Delhi
Palace on Wheels:
Rajasthan Tourism
Delhi-Jaipur-Sawai-Madhopur-Chittorgarh-
Udaipur-Jaisalmer-Jodhpur-Bharatpur- Agra-Delhi
Deccan Odyssey:
Maharashtra Tourism
New Delhi – Sawai Madhopur – Agra – Jaipur – Udaipur – Vadodara –
Ellora Caves – Mumbai
The Golden Chariot:
Karnataka Tourism
Bengaluru, Kabini, Mysore-Belur – Halebidu – Hampi – Badami –Goa –
Bengaluru
Important Railway Committees
High Level Safety Review Committee
Kanjaru Committee – 1962, Railway Accidents Committee
Khanna Committee – 1998,
Railway Accidents Enquiry Committee
Railway Safety Review Committee
Seekari Committee – 1978,
Shahnawaz Committee:( 1954)
Wahchoo Committee – 1968, Railway Safety Committee
Important facts about Railway
1. 19 Railway Recruitment Boards
are there in India
2. A platform surrounded by rail
lines from all the four sides – Island platform
3. First railway station –
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station in Mumbai.
4. Biggest railway yard located in
India: Itarasi (Madhya Pradesh)
5. Southern Eastern Railway is
known as ‘Blue chip’
6. Busiest railway station in
Indian-Lucknow (64 Trains everyday).
7. First railway factory
established in Jamalpur, 1890
8. Countries there is no railway
line – Lebanon, Mauritius reunion, Libya, Argentina,
Afghanistan, Papua,N ew Guinea
9. Division that has maximum
number of tunnels – Kalka Simla division of Northern Railway (103 tunnels)
10. Fastest train – The Bhopal
Shatabdi Express,1988,betweenAgra and New Delhi
11. Slowest train in India- Nilgri
Express,between Chennai and Mettupalayam
12. Father of Indian Railway – Lord
Dalhousie
13. First air-conditioned
double-decker train – Shatabdi train will run from Mumbai to Goa
14. First underground railway
(Metro Railway) – Kolkata Metro(1984)
15. First automatic signalling
system 1928
16. First blind friendly train,
from Mysuru to Varanasi – Train no. 16226/ 16230.
17. First broad gauge super fast
train – rajdhani express new delhi howrah 1st march 1969
18. First metre gauge super fast
train – pink city express new delhi jaipur 17thoct 1981
19. First DC electrical rail engine
– Lokmanya (CLW manufactured it in 1961)
20. First computer reservation
system start in New Delhi, 2002
21. First Duranto Express ran
between Sialdah and New Delhi
22. First electric train – Deccan
Queen, 1931,connects Mumbai with Pune .
23. First double-decker train –
Shatabdi train was flagged off in October 2011
24. First female operator in Delhi
Metro – Minakshi Sharma.
25. First female to become the
member of Railway Board – Vijaylaxmi Vishwanathan
26. Longest platform situated –
Khadagpur (West Bengal)
27. First longest railway tunnel
situated between Monkey hill and Khandala (2100 mt)
28. First monorail operate in India
– From Sarhind to Alampur and Bhawani mandi to Patiala
29. India’s first indigenous steam
engine – F–734
30. First narrow gauge super fast
train – shivalik deluxe express kalka – shimla
31. First rail minister after
independence – John Mathai and before independence Asif Ali
32. First railway book stall – 1877
allahabad wheeler & co ltd
33. First wagon in india 1920
jessop & co., Kolkata
34. First stamp on indian railways
4 annas 10thdec 1936 by king george
35. First ac train mumbai and
baroda 1936
36. First telecommunication between
guard and driver – Mumbai–New Delhi (Rajdhani Express)
37. First Rajdhani Express ran
between New Delhi–Howrah , 1969
38. First tourist rail – Palace on
wheels in 1982 between Delhi–Jaipur
39. First train in India – Mumbai
to Thane, With 400 passengers, this train completed its journey of 34 kms with
the help of three engines–Sahib, Sindh and Sultan.
40. World’s first double decker
train – 1862
41. First railway tunnel of Indian
railway -Parsik tunnel
42. Highest Railway station in
India – Similiguda (996.08 mt from sea level in the Valtair division of
Southern–Eastern Railway)
43. Highest river bridge
manufactured under Konkan Railway – Panval River Rail bridge (64 mt. high)
44. Himsagar Express passes through
– 11 States (Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh,
Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Karnataka and
45. Kerala)
46. Largest Zone in Indian Railways
– Northern Railway
47. Last railway station of
Northern Railway and Indian Railway – Bajalta
48. Indian state has maximum rail
routes – Uttar Pradesh
49. Longest rail route in India –
from Dibrugarh (Assam) To Kanyakumari
50. Longest railway bridge of
Indian railway – Railway bridge in Kerala near Kochchi joins Idapalli to
Vallerpadma (Length 4.62 km)
51. Longest railway platform
–Gorakhpur railway station, Uttar Pradesh
52. First A.C. train between Bombay
and Baroda started – 1936
53. Longest running train -Vivek
Express. It runs from Dibrugarh in upper Assam to Kanyakumari at the southern
tip of Tamil Nadu.
54. Metroman – Shridharan (Delhi
Metro Rail Engineers)
55. Railway accident in the history
of Indian Railway occurred in Morghat (Pure–Bombay root) on 5 January, 1869
56. Railway station has smallest
name from the English alphabets -IB (Between Howrah–Nagpur)
57. Railway station has longest
name – Venkatanarsimharajuvaripeta (Tamilnadu)
58. Railway station that has all
the three rails -Dumdum Railway station (EMU rail service circular Railway and
Metro Railway)
59. Railway week celebrated on
10–16April.
60. Satpura Express numerical name
10001/10002 – run between Jabalpur and Balaghat
61. Longest train -Prayagraj
Express (26 Coaches, New Delhi–Allahabad)
62. State with minimum rail routes
– Manipur
63. Train only for women run – From
Churchgate to Boriwali in Mumbai
64. Metro Rail in Calcutta – 1984
65. Train runs between India and Pakistan
– Samjhauta Express,
66. Thar Express Railway zone
launched first Railway Time Table -Central Railway.