Indian Railways GK Flashcards

Railway zones, headquarters and important facts about Indian Railways.

Central Railway

HQ: Mumbai (CSMT).

Western Railway

HQ: Mumbai (Churchgate).

Northern Railway

HQ: New Delhi (Baroda House).

Eastern Railway

HQ: Kolkata (Fairlie Place).

Southern Railway

HQ: Chennai.

South Central Railway

HQ: Secunderabad.

South Eastern Railway

HQ: Kolkata (Garden Reach).

South East Central Railway

HQ: Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh).

East Central Railway

HQ: Hajipur (Bihar).

East Coast Railway

HQ: Bhubaneswar.

North Central Railway

HQ: Prayagraj.

North Eastern Railway

HQ: Gorakhpur.

Northeast Frontier Railway

HQ: Maligaon (Guwahati).

North Western Railway

HQ: Jaipur.

South Western Railway

HQ: Hubballi.

West Central Railway

HQ: Jabalpur.

Metro Railway

HQ: Kolkata – runs the Kolkata Metro as a zone of Indian Railways.

First passenger train in India

16 April 1853 – Bori Bunder (Mumbai) to Thane, 34 km.

Locomotives of the first train

Sahib, Sindh and Sultan.

First electric train in India

3 February 1925 – Bombay VT to Kurla.

Railway Budget merged with Union Budget

2017.

First Vande Bharat Express

15 February 2019 – New Delhi to Varanasi.

Konkan Railway

Roha (Maharashtra) to Thokur (Karnataka); fully opened in 1998.

Longest railway platform in the world

Hubballi Junction, Karnataka (about 1,507 m).

Mountain Railways of India (UNESCO)

Darjeeling Himalayan (1999), Nilgiri Mountain (2005), Kalka–Shimla (2008).

Railway station that is a UNESCO site

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, Mumbai (2004).

Track gauges in India

Broad 1,676 mm; Metre 1,000 mm; Narrow 762 / 610 mm.

IRCTC founded

1999.

Chenab Rail Bridge

Jammu & Kashmir – world's highest railway arch bridge (about 359 m above the river).