INDIAN RAILWAYS | MIKE GHOUSE FOR INDIA
http://mikeghouseforindia.blogspot.com/2015/06/23-amazing-facts-about-indian-railways.html
http://mikeghouseforindia.blogspot.com/2015/06/23-amazing-facts-about-indian-railways.html
When I opened this page, a few things ran on the my mind’s screen instantly;
A. Pakeeza Dialogue: Maaf kijiye ga…Aap ke paaon
dekhe, bahut haseen hain, inhi zameen pe mat utariye, mailay ho jayeinge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4osPeBsTy3A (.37 seconds dialogue)
B. Some train songs : 1) apna hai apna dil to
awaara 2) Rukh say zara naqab utha do, mere huzoor 3) Badal jaye agar maali chaman hota nahin
khali 4) Dekh tere sansar ki halat kya hogayee bhagwaan 4) apni to har aah ek
toofan hai, 5) zindagi ke safar may guzar jate hai o mukham 6) Gadi bula rahi
hai… 7) Mere sapnon ki rani kab aayegi
tu
C. My town Yelahanka was the headquarters for Narrow Gauge, the railway line was built between Kolar Gold Fields and Bangalore thru my town… way back some 100 years ago. When the engine stopped, it released an odor of burnt coal and I loved that smell. I travelled to college – a 9 mile journey for several years and High School in Malleswaram some 7 miles. There was a Meter gauge also, now it is all broad-gauge. How the gauges were defined is another story – goes back to Rome.
C. My town Yelahanka was the headquarters for Narrow Gauge, the railway line was built between Kolar Gold Fields and Bangalore thru my town… way back some 100 years ago. When the engine stopped, it released an odor of burnt coal and I loved that smell. I travelled to college – a 9 mile journey for several years and High School in Malleswaram some 7 miles. There was a Meter gauge also, now it is all broad-gauge. How the gauges were defined is another story – goes back to Rome.
D. Chalte Chalte, yoonhi koi mil gaya tha… It is one of the most powerful songs about relationships… we meet people once a year, 4 times a year… say hello and spend 3-5 minutes of face time… pleasant exchanges and disappear till the next time. Chalte Chalte… yoon hi koi mil gaya tha… Meena Kumari was relating with that short note in the train… but we can relate with most of the things in life… we meet people at the airport.. don’t even exchange cards but have good conversations and go on… that is what this song is about. Next time you hear, pay attention to the deeper meaning than what’s on the screen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9EbgqMiICA
23 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT INDIAN RAILWAYS
1. Indian Railway is constructing
the highest rail bridge over Chenab, in J&K Five times the height of Qutub
Minar, it will be taller than the Eiffel Tower.
2. Loco-pilots (train
drivers) are paid more than an average software engineer Salaries are the tune
of Rs. 1 Lakh per month and more.
3. No loco-pilot has
abandoned the train even in the face of certain death.
4. The Indian Railways
website gets close to 12 Lakh hits per minute Hourly traffic on IRTC.com is
more than annual traffic of some of the most popular Indian websites. It can
support almost 5 million threads at one time.
5. The slowest train goes
uphill at the speed of 10 kilometers per hour. You can jump off the train,
light up a smoke, take few drags and climb on the train again. It’s the Mettupalayam
Ooty Nilgiri Passenger train.
6. If the tracks of Indian
railways were to be laid out, they would circle the earth almost 1.5 times
7. The trains got toilets
after Indian Railways completed about 50 years!
Back then, passengers had to wait till the next station to answer the call of nature!
Back then, passengers had to wait till the next station to answer the call of nature!
Thank Okhil Chandra for
making Indian Railways do the needful. He wrote the letter to Indian Railways
and finally, there were toilets in 1909!
8. Back in the old days,
elephants were used to position the carriages
9. Its 161 years old! 16th April, 1853. That’s a long time ago.
9. Its 161 years old! 16th April, 1853. That’s a long time ago.
10. The station with the
longest name is Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta
And it’s sometimes spelled with ‘Sri’ prefixed. Quite a mouthful.
And it’s sometimes spelled with ‘Sri’ prefixed. Quite a mouthful.
11. Most unreliable train in
Indian Railways is Guwahati-Trivandrum Express. It is late on an average by ten
to twelve hours. Gosh!
12. The longest tunnel in the
country is 11.215 kilometers long!
It is the Pir Panjal Railway tunnel in Jammu and Kashmir.
It is the Pir Panjal Railway tunnel in Jammu and Kashmir.
13. The station with the
smallest name is called ‘IB ’: It’s in Odisha.
14. Before Automatic Point
System was installed, hundreds of guards lost their hands and fingers trying to
fix it manually. Every time a train got delayed and we complained, an Indian
Railways employee probably lost his limbs for us.
15. The longest running train
covers a distance of 4273 km between Dibrugarh and Kanyakumari: It’s called the
Vivek Express.
16. The shortest distance
covered between two successive stations is 3 kilometers. It’s between the
Nagpur and Ajni station.
17. A train covers a distance
of 528 km without a single stop. It’s Trivandrum – H. Nizamuddin Duranto
Express.
18. Lucknow is the busiest
junction in the nation: 64 trains come in and move out, every day.
19. A massively successful
organization – running 11,000 trains.
20. Indian Railways
transports almost 2.5 crore passengers daily. That’s nearly the total
population of New Zealand, Australia and Tasmania put together!
21. The Rail Museum in Delhi
is the largest in Asia. It has working and non-working models both.
22. The railway station of
Navapur is built in two states; half in Maharashtran and the rest is in
Gujarat.
23. Indian Railways has a
mascot – Bholu, the Guard Elephant
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