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Sapt Kranti Express: Ruling the tracks with EMD Power - Keshav Singh

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Blog Entry# 1423801
Posted: Apr 09 2015 (23:52)

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Last Response: Apr 14 2015 (11:32)
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Apr 09 2015 (23:52)  
 
Piyush_Kumar_Singh^~
Piyush_Kumar_Singh^~   16955 blog posts
Entry# 1423801               Past Edits
#Source - A travel website yup its outdated
#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
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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
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
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 150Km/ph)
Train with Maximum Number of Halts Howrah-Amritsar Express (115 halts)

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Apr 12 2015 (10:48)
ER_PRAGADESH_SK_NGT^~
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Re# 1423801-9              
kerala express 3042kms
avadh assam 3072 Kms
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Apr 12 2015 (10:52)
Karan Jain~   499 blog posts
Re# 1423801-10              
and the longest travel time is not 71 hrs but 80 hrs 15 mins on Dibrugarh kaniyakumari vivek express
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Apr 12 2015 (10:53)
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Re# 1423801-11              
DNT KNOW
but in railway TT book it is written as Kerala exp is the longest daily running train in india
perhaps it is wrong I feel
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Apr 12 2015 (10:57)
Brandon12663^~
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Re# 1423801-12              
vivek exp is not a daily train
once or twice a week train.
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Apr 14 2015 (11:32)
Karan Jain~   499 blog posts
Re# 1423801-13              
M nt objecting for kerela express mister....m talking about the wrong travel time u mentioned for vivek express, instead of 82 hrs its been mentioned that vivek express takes 71 hours which is wrong... under the longest run time title..check it
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