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*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
First In India
*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
Railway Zones in India
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)
Presidential Saloon
*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
Heritage Railway Lines
*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
NEW INFO
*World’s longest and deepest rail tannel opened in Switzerland
Ans : Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) (57 K m)
*The country that helps India to raise the speed of passenger train to 200 Km
Ans : Russia
COMMEMORATIVE TRAINS
*Train Service which started to commemorate 150th birth anniversary of ‘Swami Vivekananda’
Ans : Vivek Express
*Exhibition train service launched to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore
Ans : Sanskriti Express
*Train service which started to commemorate 150th 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 100th birth anniversary-of Jawaharlal Nehru
Ans : Shatabdi Express
*The tram service named after Pandit Mandan Mohan Malavya
Ans : Mahamana express (Varanasi - Delhi)
Confusing Facts
*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)
Toy Train
*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)
