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Indian Railways
One of the largest and busiest rail
networks in the world Transports just under five billion passengers and almost 350 million tonnes of freight annually. World's largest commercial or utility employer- with more than 1.6 million employees The routes cover a total length of 63,940 km (39,230 miles) Revenue - INR 467.85 billion 7/24/2007 INDIAN RAILWAYS Harikrishna, CED, NITC 2 First train in India 22-12-1851- used for the hauling of construction material in Roorkee.
16- 4-1853- first passenger train
service - between Bori Bunder, Bombay and Thana.
Covering a distance of 34 km (21 miles), it formally heralded the birth of railways in India.
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RAILWAY ZONES IN INDIA
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Konkan Railway (KR) is constituted as a separately incorporated
railway, with its headquarters at Belapur CBD (Navi Mumbai), although it still comes under the control of the Railway Ministry and the Railway Board 7/24/2007 INDIAN RAILWAYS Harikrishna, CED, NITC 5 Map showing the Indian rail network and headquarters of each zone
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Bholu is the mascot of the IR, adopted in 2003
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Suburban rail Suburban networks operate in Mumbai (Bombay), Chennai (Madras), Kolkata (Calcutta), Delhi, Hyderabad and Pune.
New Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata
have their own metro networks, namely the New Delhi Metro, the Chennai MRTS and the Kolkata metro, respectively.
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Suburban trains - Electric Multiple Units (EMU) . Have nine coaches or sometimes twelve to handle rush hour traffic. One unit of an EMU train consists of one power car and two general coaches. Thus a nine coach EMU is made up of three units having one power car at each end and one at the middle.
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The rakes in Mumbai run on direct current, while those elsewhere use alternating current. A standard coach is designed to accommodate 96 sitting passengers Mumbai's rail transport - jointly managed by the Central and Western Railways. It has three lines, one managed by the WR and other two managed by the Central Railway.
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Mumbai's suburban railway Densest route in the world.
Carries more than 50,000 passengers
per kilometer, transporting 65 lakh (6.5 million) commuters daily.
This has resulted in severe
overloading in the trains
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Mumbai's suburban railway Carry 5000 commuters per 9 car trains which are designed to carry less than a third of that amount.
The density of passengers in peak
hours is as high as 15 people per sq metre.
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Passenger services Indian Railways operates 8,702 passenger trains and transports around five billion annually across twenty-seven states and three union territories (Delhi, Pondicherry and Chandigarh). Sikkim is the only state not connected. The passenger division is the most preferred form of long distance transport in most of the country. 7/24/2007 INDIAN RAILWAYS Harikrishna, CED, NITC 13 Passenger services A standard passenger train consists of eighteen coaches, but some popular trains can have up to 24 coaches. Coaches are designed to accommodate anywhere from 18 to 72 passengers. Each coach has different accommodation class; the most popular being the sleeper class. Up to nine of these type coaches are usually coupled. Air conditioned coaches are also attached, and a standard train may have between three and five air- conditioned coaches.
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Freight Indian Railways makes 70% of its revenues and most of its profits from the freight sector, and uses these profits to cross-subsidise the loss- making passenger sector.
However, competition from trucks
which offer cheaper rates has seen a decrease in freight traffic in recent years.
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Trucks that carry goods to a particular location are hauled back by trains saving the trucking company on unnecessary fuel expenses.
Refrigerated vans are also available in many
areas. The "Green Van" is a special type used to transport fresh food and vegetables.
Recently Indian Railways introduced the special
'Container Rajdhani' or CONRAJ, for high priority freight.
The highest speed notched up for a freight train
is 100 km/h (62 mph) for a 4,700 tonne load.
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Notable trains and achievements Darjeeling Himalayan Railway - World Heritage Site, and one of the few steam engines in operation in India
Nicknamed the "Toy Train", - 2 ft
(610 mm) gauge narrow-gauge railway with steam locomotive
The route starts at Siliguri in the plains in
West Bengal and traverses tea gardens en route to Darjeeling, a hill station at an elevation of 2,134 metres (7,000 ft).
The highest station in this route is Ghum.
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"Toy Train"
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Nilgiri Mountain Railway, in the Nilgiri Hills in southern India- classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
It is also the only cog railway in
India.
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The Nilgiri Mountain Railway (NMR) connects the town of Mettupalayam with the hill station of Udagamandalam, in the Nilgiri Hills of southern India.
One of the oldest mountain railways
in India only rack railway in India.
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Rack railway A cog railway, rack-and-pinion railway or rack railway is a railway with a special toothed rack rail or rack mounted on the sleepers, usually between the running rails. The trains are fitted with one or more cog wheels or pinions that mesh with this rack rail. This allows the trains to operate on steeply inclined slopes.
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Rack railway
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Nilgiri Mountain Railway
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The Palace on Wheels is a specially designed train, lugged by a steam engine, for promoting tourism in Rajasthan. The Samjhauta Express was a train that ran between India and Pakistan. Another train connecting Khokhra Par (Pakistan) and Munabao (India) is the Thar Express that restarted operations on February 18, 2006 since being closed down after the 1965 Indo-Pak war. The Lifeline Express is a special train popularly known as the "Hospital-on- Wheels" which provides healthcare to the rural areas.
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The Fairy Queen is the oldest running locomotive in the world today, though the distinction of the oldest surviving locomotive belongs to John Bull. Kharagpur railway station also has the distinction of being the world's longest railway platform at 1072 m (3,517 ft). The Ghum station along the Toy Train route is the second highest railway station in the world to be reached by a steam locomotive
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Some Interesting Facts The shortest named station - Ib Longest named station - Sri Venkatanarasimharajuvariapeta. The Himsagar Express, between Kanyakumari and Jammu Tawi, has the longest run in terms of distance and time on Indian Railways network. It covers 3,745 km (2,327 miles) in about 74 hours and 55 minutes.
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Some Interesting Facts The Trivandrum Rajdhani, between Delhi's Nizamuddin Station and Trivandrum, travels non-stop between Vadodara and Kota, covering a distance of 528 km (328 miles) in about 6.5 hours, has the longest continuous run on Indian Railways today. The Bhopal Shatabdi Express is the fastest train in India today having a maximum speed of 140 km/h (87 mph) on the Faridabad-Agra section. The fastest speed attained by any train is 184 km/h (114 mph) in 2000 during test runs.
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Current problems High accident rate - three hundred a year. Human error is the primary cause (83%) blamed for mishaps. Antiquated communication, safety and signalling equipment. Aging colonial-era bridges and century- old tracks Overcrowding Most railway land in India unrestricted 7/24/2007 INDIAN RAILWAYS Harikrishna, CED, NITC 28 Approximate gross earnings and freight loading position of Indian Railways for the period from 1st April 2006 to 28th February 2007 .
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