Indian Railways - a factfile (with accident story)
July 19th, 2010 - 8:51 pm ICT by IANSA factfile on Indian Railways which runs the world’s second largest railroad network under a single management:
-The network comprises 64,015 route km with 6,906 railway stations
-It runs 18,518 trains, of which over 11,000 are passenger trains
- It ferries 19 million passengers every day
- It carries 2.29 million tonnes of freight each day
- It is the largest employer with 1.39 million people
- It runs 125 hospitals across the country with 14,023 beds
- It runs 316 schools
-First train service was on April 16, 1853 when 400 guests in 14 carriages left Mumbai’s Bori Bunder for Thane.
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