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Tuesday, 26 July 2016

Indian Railways: World's largest Railway Networks

Indian Railways owned and operated by  Government of India through the Ministry of Railways.
Indian railway is one of the world's largest railway networks.It comprises 115,000 km (71,000 mi) of track over a route of 67,312 km (41,826 mi) and 7,112 stations. In 2014-15, Indian railway carried 8.397 billion passengers annually or more than 23 million passengers a day (roughly half of whom were suburban passengers) and 1058.81 million tons of freight in the year. In 2014–2015 Indian Railways had revenues of ₹1,634.50 billion (US$24 billion) which consists of ₹1,069.27 billion (US$16 billion) from freight and₹402.80 billion (US$6.0 billion) from passengers tickets.

Indian Railways is the world's seventh largest commercial or utility employer, by number of employees, with over 1.376 million employees as of last published figures in 2013.

Railways were first introduced to India in the year 1853 from Mumbai to Thane during british government.  

Indian Railways is divided into 17 zones






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