| Busiest Railway Station |
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus |
| Daily Carries |
More than 11 million passengers & 1 million tonnes of freight |
| Daily Runs |
About 10,000 trains |
| East most railway station |
Ledo on branch line from Tinsukia |
| Electrification |
21,500 km |
| Fastest Train |
India New Delhi-Bhopal Shatabdi Express is the fastest train in India (runs at a speed up to 150 Km/ph) |
| First Computerized Reservation |
New Delhi (1986) |
| First double Decker train |
Flying Rani introduced in 2005 |
| First electric locomotive |
1908 |
| First electric train |
Ran between Bombay's Victoria Terminus and Kurla along the Harbour Line of CR, on February 3, 1925, a distance of 9.5 miles |
| First proposal |
Madras 1832 |
| First Rail Tunnel |
Parsik Tunnel |
| First Railway Bridge |
Dapoorie Viaduct on the Mumbai-Thane route |
| First Underground Railway |
Calcutta Metro |
| Founded |
On April 16th, 1853, when a train with 14 railway carriages and 400 guests left Bombay's Bori Bunder for Thane. |
| Headquarter |
New Delhi, India |
| Highest railway station |
Ghoom |
| Largest railway complex in India |
Howrah Station |
| Least punctual train |
Guwahati-Trivandrum Express is said to be the most unreliable long-distance train in the country. The charted journey time is 65 hours and 5 minutes, but the average delay on a trip is about 10-12 hours. |
| Length |
65,000 km |
| Longest Non-Stop Run (Distance) |
Trivandrum Rajdhani covering 3149 km |
| Longest non-stop travel/ Trains with most stops |
Trivandrum - H. Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express travels the 528km stretch between Vadodara and Kota non-stop |
| Longest Railway Bridge |
Rail link between Idapalli railway station and ICTT, 4.62km |
| Longest Railway Platform |
Kharagpur (2,733 ft in length) |
| Longest Run (Time) |
Vivek Express from Dibrugarh to Kanyakumari travels a distance of 4273 |
| Longest Run for Daily Train |
Kerala Express (3054 km in 42.5 hrs) |
| Longest Station Name |
Venkatanarasimharajuvariipeta on the Arakkonam-Renigunta section near Chennai |
| Longest Tunnel |
Karbude Tunnel of the Konkan Railway (6.5 km) |
| Nationalization |
1951 |
| Normal length of a passenger train |
24 coaches |
| Northernmost railway station |
Baramulla in Jammu and Kashmir |
| Oldest Preserved Locomotive |
Fairy Queen (1855), still in working order |
| Oldest running dining car |
The Bombay - Pune Deccan Queen |
| Oldest Station |
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus |
| Oldest trains still running |
Bangalore Mail has been running in various guises since 1864 |
| People Employed |
About 1.6 million people, fourth largest employer in World |
| Railway Station with all the Three Gauges |
Siliguri Railway Station |
| Shortest distance between stations |
Safilguda and Dayanand Nagar stations on the Secunderabad, 170m apart. |
| Shortest Run |
Route between Nagpur and Ajni (3km) |
| Shortest Station Name |
Ib, near Jharsuguda in Odisha and Od, near Anand in Gujarat |
| Southernmost railway station |
Kanyakumari |
| Stations |
7000 to 8000 |
| Stations across State Lines |
Navapur (Maharashtra and Gujarat), Bhawani Mandi (Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan) |
| Tallest bridge |
The Ghambir Khad bridge between Jammu Tawi and Udhampur is 77m tall. |
| The largest distance entirely in one state |
Kolhapur-Gondia Maharashtra Exp, |
| Track gauge |
1676 mm; 1000 mm; 762 mm; 610 mm |
| Train crossed maximum number of zones |
Ernakulam-Barauni |
| Train crosses the largest number of states |
Navyug express between Mangalore and Jammu Tawi |
| Train with Maximum Number of Halts |
Howrah-Amritsar Express (115 halts) |
| UNESCO World Heritage Sites |
Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus and the Mountain Railways of ( Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, a narrow gauge railway in West Bengal) |
| Western most station |
Naliya near Bhuj in Gujarat |
