The total distance
covered by the 14,300
trains on the Indian
Railways everyday, equals
three & half times the
distance to moon.

The first train on Indian
soil ran between Bombay
and Thane on the 16th of
April 1853.

Indian Railways has about 63,028 route
kms. of track

It carries over 13 million
passengers & 1.3 million
tones of freight everyday
.

Indian Railways employs about 1.55
million people
.

IR runs about 14,300
trains daily.

IR has about 7,000 railway
stations

The longest platform in
the world is at Kharagpur
and is 2,733 ft. in length
.

Nehru Setu on Sone River
is the longest Railway
bridge
.

42 Railway companies
operated in the country
before independence.

The national Rail Museum
at New Delhi was set-up in
1977
.

Was chatting about the railway's that run through ur mountain ranges with another member here, last week. What i didnt ask was whether they have tunnels on the routes through them to safeguard against possible land and mud slides/ avalanches?

Yes, IR Has many railway tunnel.... India is one & only sub-continent, where you can see all the physical featurers in different parts of the country so tunnels are important if railway is spread every where in India.