Important Facts About Indian Railway-4

Dear LAS'ians,

Here we are providing Important Facts About Indian Railway with a quick learning approach,  this will help you to learning in a funny manner.So lets start preparation just a single view..!!

Since,it's start nearly 170 years ago by the British, trains have been an integral part of Indian lives but I'm sure not very many know all these amazing facts.

As continued....

30. Palace on Wheels : Indians were not allowed to board the Palace on Wheels luxury train for quite a while when it was launched on Republic Day of 1982.
31. Passenger Load : The Indian Railways (IR) carries over 23 million passengers daily which is perhaps more than the entire population of Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania put together. Annually Indian Railways ferries  8.421 billion passengers.

32.Total Number of Trains : Indian Railways runs as many as 19,000 trains every day. Some 12,000  trains are for passengers and 7,000 for freight.

33.Number of classes of Accommodation: 10 (1AC, 2AC, 3AC, 3AE, EC, CC, FC, SL, 2S, II-UR)

34.Total seating capacity of the Indian Railways: 5.06 million The total population of Finland or Singapore can be easily seated inside all of Indian Trains

35.Zone with highest absolute earnings: Northern Railway (123.27 mn) 

36.Zone with highest earnings from Passenger Business per track kilometer: North Central Railway NCR (5.4 mn/km)
37.Zone with highest earnings from highest earnings from Freight Loading and overall business per track kilometer: Eastern Coastal Railway ECOR (18.1 mn/km, 20.1 mn/km)

38.State with highest per capita rail route km: Andhra Pradesh* (0.1 metre/person)

39.State with lowest per capita rail route km: Kerala (0.03 metre/person)

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