Interesting Facts about Indian Railways:-Interesting Facts about Indian Railways:-

Interesting Facts about Indian Railways:-
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Shortest station name: Ib near Jharsuguda on the Howrah-Nagpur main line (South Eastern Railway.
Longest station name: Venkatanarasimharaj uvariapeta often prefixed with Sri. on the Arakkonam-Renigunta section of the Southern Railway.
Longest run (time): The Himsagar Express running between Jammu Tawi and Kanyakumari, It covers its route of 3751km in 74 hours and 55 minutes.
Longest run for daily train: The Kerala Express has daily service and covers 3054 km in its run (in 42.5 hours).
Longest non-stop run (distance): The Trivandrum Rajdhani does not have a technical halt at Ratlam and, therefore, travels non-stop between Vadodara and Kota (528km), covering the stretch in about 6.5 hours.
Trains with no commercial halts en route: Sampoorna Kranti Exp,Howrah Rajdhani, Bombay Rajdhani, Pragati Exp and Pune Shatabdi
Shortest runs: Nagpur - Ajni has scheduled services that are just 3km in distance. This is mainly a service for crew to travel from Nagpur station to the workshop at Ajni.
Highest number of halts: Mail and Express trains [3/99] The Howrah-Amritsar Exp. leads in this category with 115 halts.
Busiest Station: Lucknow which caters to as many as 64 trains per day.
Stations straddling state lines: Navapur is a station that is half in Maharashtra and half in Gujarat . Bhawani Mandi station, on the Shamgarh-Kota section of the Bombay-Delhi line is half in Madhya Pradesh and half in Rajasthan.
Station with all the three gauges: Siliguri station.

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