Interesting Facts about Indian Railways

• Shortest station name: Ib near Jharsuguda on the Howrah-Nagpur main line

(South Eastern Railway.

• Longest station name: Venkatanarasimharajuvariapeta 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 3751 km 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.