02-01-2018, 04:28 PM
INDIAN 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 : 16th 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 : A.K. Mital
*Longest Road tunnel in India
Ans : Chenani - Nashri Tunnel (9.2 Km, Jammu & Kashmir)
*Inagurated by Narendra Modi on 2nd April 2017
*Chenani- Nashri Tunnel is also known as
Ans : Patnitop Tunnel
*It is situated under the Shivalik mountain ranges of great Himalayas.
*This tunnel connects Jammu & Srinagar
Single Budget
*The Government has decided to merge Rail budget with the Union budget from budget year - 2017 - 18.
*The merged budget was presented on
Ans : 2nd 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
*Mascot of Indian railway
Ans : Elephant named Bholu
*First Railway Minister of independent India
Ans : John Mathai
*First railway budget in independant 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 : 17
*First railway zone in India
Ans : Southern Zone (14th April 1951)
*17th 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
Extra Info
*First railway in the world
Ans : Stockton - Darlington railway in U.K (1825)
*First twin track intercity passenger railway in the world (1830)
Ans : Liverpool and Manchester railway
Wi-Fi
*First Wi-Fi enabled Railway station in India
Ans : New Delhi
*First Railway station in India to get Google’s free high speed Wi-Fi Mumbai Central
*First Wi-Fi train in India
Ans : Rajadhani Express
*First Indian train to have CCTV cameras installed in all coaches
Ans : Shan-e-Punjab
Metro Rail
*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 (20th October 2011)
*Bangalore metro is also known as
Ans : Namma Metro
*First metro train to be made in India
Ans : Movia
*First fully privately project metro project in India
Ans : Gurgaon’s rapid metro
No doubt
*First woman station master in India
Ans : Rinku Sinha Roy
*First woman loco pilot in India
Ans : Surekha Bhosale
