WAM 4 - Father of the Nation for RailFans - Vikas Kumar

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#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
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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)