First/Longest/Oldest in Indian Railways : ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ► First Passenger Train Ran On ► 16th April 1853 (between Bombay to Thane) ► First Railway Bridge ► Dapoorie Viaduct on the Mumbai-Thane route ► First Rail Tunnel ► Parsik Tunnel ► First Ghats Covered by the Rail lines ► Thal and Bhore Ghats ► First Underground Railway ► Calcutta METRO ► First Computerized Reservation System started in ► New Delhi (1986) ► First Electric Train ran on ► 3rd Feb' 1925 (between Bombay VT and Kurla) ► Toilets on Trains were introduced in ► 1891 (1st Class) & 1907 (lower classes) ► Shortest Station Name ► Ib (Orissa) ► Longest Station Name ► Sri Venkatanarasimharajuvariapeta (Tamil Nadu) ► Busiest Railway Station ► Lucknow (64 trains everyday) ► Longest Run (Time) ► Vivek Express (3715 km in Approx 71 hrs) ► Shortest Run ► Route between Nagpur to Ajni (3km) ► Longest Run for Daily Train ► Kerala Express (3054 km in 42.5 hrs) ► Longest Non-Stop Run (Distance) ► Trivandrum Rajdhani (528 km in 6.5 hrs) ► Longest Railway Platform in the World ► Kharagpur (2,733 ft in length) ► Longest Railway Bridge ► Nehru Setu on Sone River (10044ft in length) ► Longest Tunnel Karbude On ► Konkan Railway between Monkey hill & Khandala (6.5 km) ► Oldest Preserved Locomotive ► Fairy Queen (1855), still in working order ► Indian Railway's Fastest Train ► Bhopal-Shatabdi(runs at a speed up to 140 Km/ph) ► Train with Maximum Number of Halts ► Howrah-Amritsar Express (115 halts).
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