Turnaround Strategy of Railway
History of Indian Railways
Introduced in the country in 1853 by the British.
53 kms between Mumbai and Thane
The Indian Railways (IR) has a network spread over 63,000 route kms. and 7000 stations
12 million passengers and more than 1.2 million tonnes of freight daily
40 per cent of the freight and 2- per cent of the passenger traffic in the country.
8.5 per cent of the organised employment of the country either directly or indirectly.
Transport output of both passenger and freight traffic in terms of net tonne/passenger kilometre has increased six-fold since Independence
ORIGIN & DEVELOPMENT
1947 Post partition 21 railway systems----10 owned by the GOI and balance by princely states. Total integration of princely state railways completed by first April 1950
1951 Southern, Central and Western Railways SR, CR&WR created
1952 Northern, Eastern and North Eastern Railways, NR,ER&NER created
1955 South Eastern Railways, SER created 1958 North East Frontier Railways, NFR created
Contd…
1966 South Central Railways, SCR created 2002 East Central & North Western Railways created in October
2003 South Western , West Central, North Central, South Eastern Central & East Coast Railway, SWR, WCR, NCR, SECR and ECoR created in April 2003
First Train In INDIA
LINKS
Partition of India had its own problems in the beginning
The truncated network of the North-East stood woefully incomplete and unconnected.
Reason: bangladesh
Assam Rail Link project was completed in 1950 providing a meter gauge (MG) rail link to Assam
The broad gauge (BG) link was extended in phases to Guwahati between 1965 and 1985.
Two massive bridges on the mighty Branhmaputra at Kamakhya and Jogighopa and later extension of a BG link up to Dibrugarh and Lekhapani finally made it possible to travel to the North-East undisturbed.
INDIAN RAILWAYS
Indian Railways is more than150 year old
It is largest railway system in world under one
Introduced in the country in 1853 by the British.
53 kms between Mumbai and Thane
The Indian Railways (IR) has a network spread over 63,000 route kms. and 7000 stations
12 million passengers and more than 1.2 million tonnes of freight daily
40 per cent of the freight and 2- per cent of the passenger traffic in the country.
8.5 per cent of the organised employment of the country either directly or indirectly.
Transport output of both passenger and freight traffic in terms of net tonne/passenger kilometre has increased six-fold since Independence
ORIGIN & DEVELOPMENT
1947 Post partition 21 railway systems----10 owned by the GOI and balance by princely states. Total integration of princely state railways completed by first April 1950
1951 Southern, Central and Western Railways SR, CR&WR created
1952 Northern, Eastern and North Eastern Railways, NR,ER&NER created
1955 South Eastern Railways, SER created 1958 North East Frontier Railways, NFR created
Contd…
1966 South Central Railways, SCR created 2002 East Central & North Western Railways created in October
2003 South Western , West Central, North Central, South Eastern Central & East Coast Railway, SWR, WCR, NCR, SECR and ECoR created in April 2003
First Train In INDIA
LINKS
Partition of India had its own problems in the beginning
The truncated network of the North-East stood woefully incomplete and unconnected.
Reason: bangladesh
Assam Rail Link project was completed in 1950 providing a meter gauge (MG) rail link to Assam
The broad gauge (BG) link was extended in phases to Guwahati between 1965 and 1985.
Two massive bridges on the mighty Branhmaputra at Kamakhya and Jogighopa and later extension of a BG link up to Dibrugarh and Lekhapani finally made it possible to travel to the North-East undisturbed.
INDIAN RAILWAYS
Indian Railways is more than150 year old
It is largest railway system in world under one
Links: HimsagarExpress(3751kmin74hrsand55min) Shortest Run: First Computerized Reservation System Started In: New Delhi (1986) Longest Railway Bridge: Nehru Setu on Sone River (10044ft in length)