India Railway is world's third largest and Asia's biggest railway network. The first train started in 1853 between Thane and Mumbai in India.

• There are 14,300 trains runs by Indian Railway every day.
• Indian railway has  63,028 kilometers of train track route. Total distance covered by 14,300 trains every day is equal to 3.5 times the distance between earth and moon.
• The highest rail bridge in the word is being constructed by India railway in river Chenab J&K. It will be taller than Effie tower 
• There are total 75000 railway station in the country.
• The Longest railway tunnel in India is 11.215 KM long in peer panjal J&K completed in 2012

• Nilgire express is slowest train in India runs at 10 Km/ hour.

• Salaries of train driver are more than salaries of Software engineer. Indian Railway drivers are paid more than 1 lac per month

• The most unliable train in india railway is Guwhati Express. It is late by 10 hours average
• The Longest train is Vikas Express running between Jammu Tavi and Kanyakumari. It covers 4449 kilometer of distance.