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7 unusual facts about Indian Railways


Central Industrial Security Force

However the role of CISF has undergone a diversification and it now also protects airports, seaports, metro rail networks, government buildings, heritage monuments (including the Taj Mahal), opium and alkaloids extractions, nuclear power plants, and space installations.

Cloakroom

The facility is operated by the Commercial Department of Indian Railways at all major railway stations; smaller railway stations may not have this facility.

College of Technology, Pantnagar

Two railway stations of North Eastern Railways- Pantnagar (IR Code PBW) and Haldi Road (IR Code HLDD) are located in the campus at a distance of 4 km (east) and 3 km (west) respectively from administrative building.

Gujarat International Finance Tec-City

Indian Railways railway lines pass the city on the east and west sides; the closest stations are in Dabhoda and Naroda.

Maureen Patey Eyre Proudman

Proudman designed travel posters for Indian Railways, working for the Ministry of Public works in Jodhpur.

Railway Protection Force Academy

The Railway Protection Force Academy is a training institute run by the Indian Railways to impart training to new joinees to the Indian Railway Protection Force (RPF).

Sonauli

The nearest Railway station from Sonauli is Nautanwa, which is around 7 km away and is now well connected with Indian Railway Network.


Ajmer Sealdah Superfast Express

The 12988/87 Ajmer Sealdah Superfast Express is Superfast express train belonging to Indian Railways that runs between Ajmer Junction and Sealdah in India.

Bandra Terminus Udaipur Superfast Express

The 22901/22902 Bandra Terminus Udaipur Superfast Express is a Superfast express train belonging to Indian Railways that run between Mumbai and Udaipur in India.

Bhagalpur – Anand Vihar Terminal Garib Rath Express

The Bhagalpur – Anand Vihar Terminal Garib Rath Express is a superfast train of Indian Railways which connects Bhagalpur, an important town of Bihar and Delhi, the capital of India.

Bihar Sampark Kranti Superfast Express

The 12565/12566 Bihar Sampark Kranti Superfast Express is one of two Superfast express train belonging to Indian Railways that run between Darbhanga Junction and New Delhi in India.

Chandigarh Bandra Terminus Superfast Express

The 22451 / 22452 Chandigarh Bandra Terminus Superfast Express is Superfast express train belonging to Indian Railways that runs between Chandigarh and Bandra Terminus in India.

Chemmozhi Express

Chemmozhi express (Train Nos 16615/16616) is a superfast daily train run by Indian Railways between Coimbatore city Junction and Mannargudi.

Chenab Bridge

Indian Railways has undertaken the mega-project of construction of a new railway line in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, from Udhampur to Baramulla, which has been declared a national project.

Chhattisgarh Sampark Kranti Superfast Express

The 12823/12824 Chhattisgarh Sampark Kranti Superfast Express is a Superfast express train belonging to Indian Railways that run between Durg and Hazrat Nizamuddin in India.

Clement Hindley

He also served as India's first Chief Commissioner of Railways bringing about the nationalisation of the East Indian and Great Indian Peninsular railways, the reorganisation of the Railway Department and establishing the Railway Staff College at Dehradun.

This latter role made him the chief advisor to the Indian government on railways and he used this to institute a reform of the railway sector including the opening of the Railway Staff College, the reorganisation of the Railway Department and the bringing of the East Indian and Great Indian Peninsular railways into public ownership.

Combined Medical Services Examination

The "Combined Medical Services" Examination or the CMS Exam is conducted by the Union Public Service Commission for recruitment as Medical Officer in various organizations such as the Indian Ordnance Factories, Indian Railways functuning under the Government of India.

East Indian Railway Company

On 14 April 1952, Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India inaugurated two new zones of the first six zones of the Indian Railways.

Gorakhpur Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Superfast Express

The 12541/12542 Gorakhpur Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Superfast Express is a Superfast express train belonging to Indian Railways that run between Gorakhpur Junction and Lokmanya Tilak Terminus in India.

Howrah Ahmedabad Superfast Express

The 12834/33 Howrah Ahmedabad Superfast Express is a Superfast express train belonging to Indian Railways that runs between Howrah Junction and Ahmedabad Junction in India.

Howrah Jodhpur Express

The 12307/12308 Howrah Jodhpur Express is a Superfast express train belonging to Indian Railways that runs between Howrah Junction and Jodhpur in India.

Nasirabad, Ajmer

Nasirabad Cantonment is well connected with railways (Broad Gauge of Indian Railways) and also connected with Golden Quadrilateral of Delhi–Mumbai route.

Paranur

The Paranur railway station is the first of its kind in the public-private partnership between a private company and the Indian railways.

Rail Wheel Factory

Rail Wheel Factory (RWF) at Yelahanka, Bangalore (earlier known as Wheel and Axle Plant, WAP) it was started by Shri CK Jaffer Sharief the then Railway Minister who got this project to Bangalore is a premier manufacturing unit of Indian Railways, which is engaged in the production of wheels, axles and wheel sets of railroad wagons, coaches and locomotives for the use of the Indian Railways and select overseas customers.

Rajendra Nagar Terminal railway station

It is located in Rajendra Nagar in Patna and is in the Danapur railway division of the East Central Railway zone of the Indian Railways.

Sewagram Express

The 12139/40 Mumbai CST Nagpur Sewagram Express is a Superfast express train belonging to Indian Railways that runs between Mumbai CST and Nagpur Junction in India.

Sooranporu

In Tamil Nadu, Sooranporu is witnessed every year by large crowds of devotees and the state government and Indian Railways ply special buses and trains to facilitate their travel.

Swatantra Sainani Superfast Express

The 12561/12562 Swatantra Sainani Superfast Express is a Superfast express train belonging to Indian Railways that run between Darbhanga Junction and New Delhi in India.

Thirukural Express

Thirukural Express is a Super Fast express train in India, running between Kanniyakumari, the southernmost tip of the Indian Subcontinent and Hazrat Nizamuddin in New Delhi, which is the national capital of the country.

Transport in Tamil Nadu

Despite of full technical and logical separation from the Chennai Suburban Railway, the MRTS is operated by the state-owned Southern Railway (SR), a zone of Indian Railways.

Varanasi Junction railway station

It is partly under the administrative control of Lucknow Division of the Northern Railway Zone, and partly under the administrative control of Varanasi Division of the North Eastern Railway Zone of the Indian Railways.

Vinodini Terway

This was a natural choice, due to the rail link between Gaya and Varanasi, both on the Grand Chord section of the Indian Railways.

William James Wanless

Wanlesswadi has its own Postal Index Number, 416414, and the Indian Railways also has a station named 'Wanlesswadi’ on its Miraj–Sangli Route, which opened on April 1, 1907 for the use by ill or needy patients from across India and from abroad.


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Bezwada Wilson

His eldest brother also worked as a manual scavenger in the Indian railways for four years and then ten years in KGF Gold mines township.

Garib

Garib Rath, an express train on Indian Railways (Here "Garib" means "Poor")

Indian Railway Accounts Service

The two year training program includes classroom training at National Academy of Direct Taxes at Nagpur, Railway Staff College Vadodara and specialised training institutes, as well as field training on zonal railways, divisions, construction organisations and manufacturing units of the Indian Railways.

IRSE

Indian Railway Service of Engineers, a cadre of the Government of India responsible for managing the Civil Engineering Organisation of the Indian Railways.

Mahaparinirvan Express

The Mahaparinirvan Express is operated by Indian Railways using carriages from a Rajdhani Express train.

Sarupsar

Sarupsar Junction (IR Station code SRPR) is an important railway junction station under Ajmer division of North Western Railway zone of Indian Railways.

Sirsiya

The 6 km long metre gauge railway track from Raxaul was converted to broad gauge by the Indian railways to connect Sirsiya Inland Container Depot (ICD) (also known as Birganj Dry Port) that became fully operational in 2005.

SPTR

Silapathar railway station, in the Indian Railways code system

Visakha Express

The Visakha Express is a daily express train of the Indian Railways connecting Secunderabad (SC) to Bhubaneshwar (BBS), popularized by the 2008 Tollywood movie of the same name.

West Bengal Sampark Kranti

The train was first announced during the budget session on 2004-05 of Indian Railways by then the Minister of Railways, Nitish Kumar.