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On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Mohamed Jaffer <mjkassam@gmail.com> wrote:
--23 Amazing Facts About The Indian Railways You Never Knew
Highest bridges2. Loco-pilots (train drivers) are paid more than an average software engineerSalaries are the tune of Rs. 1 Lakh per month and more.The Hindu4. The Indian Railways website gets close to 12 Lakh hits per minuteHourly traffic on IRTC.com is more than annual traffic of some of the most popular Indian websites. It cansupport almost 5 million threads at one time. But, we've got more people than that. Hence the never ending trolls.nextbigwhat5. The slowest train goes uphill at the speed of 10 kilometers per hourYou can jump off the train, light up a smoke, take few drags and climb on the train again.It's the Mettupalayam Ooty Nilgiri Passenger train.6. If the tracks of Indian railways were to be laid out, they would circle the earth almost 1.5 times7. The trains got toilets after Indian Railways completed about 50 years!Back then, passengers had to wait till the next station to answer the call of nature!Thank Okhil Chandra for making Indian Railways do the needful. He wrote the followingletter to Indian Railways and finally, there were toilets in 1909!8. Back in the old days, elephants were used to position the cartridges10. The station with the longest name is VenkatanarasimharajuvaripetaAnd it's sometimes spelled with 'Sri' prefixed. Quite a mouthful.11. Most unreliable train in Indian Railways is Guwahati-Trivandrum ExpressIt is late on an average by ten to twelve hours. Gosh!12. The longest tunnel in the country is 11.215 kilometers long!It is the Pir Panjal Railway tunnel in Jammu and Kashmir.14. Before installing Automatic Point System was installed, hundreds of guards lost their hands andfingers trying to fix it manually. Every time a train got delayed and we complained, anIndian Railways employee probably lost his limbs for us15. The longest running train covers a distance of 4273 km between Dibrugarh andKanyakumari: It's called the Vivek Express16. The shortest distance covered between two successive stations is 3 kilometersIt's between the Nagpur and Ajni station.17. A train covers a distance of 528 km without a single stopIt's Trivandrum – H. Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express.18. Lucknow is the busiest junction in the nation: 64 trains come in and move out, every day20. Indian Railways transports almost 2.5 crore passengers dailyThat's nearly the total population of New Zealand, Australia and Tasmania put together!21. The Rail Museum in Delhi is the largest in AsiaIt has working and non-working models both.Wikipedia22. The railway station of Navapur is built in two states; half in Maharashtra and the rest is in Gujarat23. Indian Railways has a mascot – Bholu, the Guard Elephant
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