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A very happy birthday to the NCR King the pride of #ALLAHABAD the #MIGHTY #PRAYAGRAJ_EXPRESS.
Some #facts about PrayagRaj Express:
1)Flagged Off by Mr. #Amitabh_Bachhan then #MP of #Allahabad in 1986.
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train receives the utmost #priority through out #NCR section.
3)#LHBfied on December 18 2016
4)This train transfeered to NCR from NR upon creation of NCR in early 2000
5) It has 23 coaches including 8 air-conditioned coaches. It is, along with the prestigious Shaan - E - Bhopal Express, one of the "first" #ISO_9002 certified trains of India because of its security features and high priority on the Indian Railways.
6)It is retaining its ISO certificate since the day it was issued and thus becomes the Longest Reiging Train to do so.
7)This train has 100% Occupancy all days of the year
8)Second train to have 23 LHB Coach 1st was the Prestigious #Lucknow_Mail (runs with 24 LHB Coach)

#FACTS OF INDIAN RAILWAYS
Beginning of railway—In England, 1825.
● Two companies were established to develop
railways in India—(i) East India Railway
Company, (ii) Great Indian Peninsula Rail-
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Company.
● Afterwards, an another company was also set
up—Madras Railway Company.
● Indian Railway started on 16 April, 1853.
● First train covered a distance of 34 km
between Mumbai and Thane. This train was
run by Great Indian Peninsula company of
Central Railway.
● The name of first rail engine was Beauty.
● There were 400 passengers, in four-wheeler,
14 bogies of the first train.
● In 1854, second train ran between Hoogly and
Howrah.
● Metre gauge started functioning in 1870.
● In the first stage, railway was run by private
sector, since Indian British Government did
not have fund.
● Lord Salisbury had issued three instructions
regarding construction and expansion of
Indian railways in the states.
● Guarantee system in railway started in 1882.
● First electrified train ran on 5 February, 1925.
● Railway was nationalised in 1950.
● Railway Board was set up in 1905 during the
period of Lord Curzon.
● At present, there is provision of a chairman,
one finance commissioner and five members
in the Railway Board.
● First diesel engine in India ran in 1957.
● At present, diesel engines are manufactured in
Varanasi.
● First locomotive factory was set up in
Chittaranjan of West Bengal. This Industrial
coach factory was based on the model of
Switzerland.
● The name of first electric train was Deccan
Queen, which ran between Pune and Mumbai.
● In 1929, it ran between Pune and Kalyan.
● New name of this train is Royal Oriental
Express.
● Indian Railway is the biggest in Asia and
second in the world.
● India is the only country in the world which
has rails of different breadths.
● There are four types of widths of rail lines—
(a) Broad gauge—1676 mm — 1·676 metre.
(b) Metre gauge—1000 mm — 1 metre.
(c) Narrow gauge—762 mm — 0·762 metre.
(d) Special gauge—610 mm—0·61 metre.
● Main Railway factories :
(a) Integral Coach Factory—Perembur
(Chennai).
(b) Rail Coach Factory—Kapurthala.
(c) Wheel and Axle Plant—Bangalore.
(d) Diesel Component Works—Patiala.
(e) Diesel Locomotive—Varanasi.
(f) Chittaranjan Locomotive Works—
Chittaranjan.
● Biggest Yard of India—Mugalsarai (U.P.).
● Biggest railway crossing of India—Itarasi (M.P)
Biggest railway station of India—Kharagpur.
● Longest railway river bridge of India—Nehru
Setu Bridge near Dehri-on-Sone (Bihar).
● Railway station on maximum height—Jhum
(Darjeeling).
● First rail museum in India—New Delhi.
● The biggest diamond crossing of India—
Dhanbad (Jharkhand).
● First computerised railway reservation of
India—New Delhi.
● First rail-bus service in India—Meratapur,
Rajasthan (12th October, 1994; its speed was
80 km/hr. Total number of passengers was 71,
including driver, among whom-15 were
standing.)
● First rail minister of India—Asaf Ali.
● First woman rail driver of India—Mumtaz
Kathwala.
● There is no railway line in Meghalaya,
Lakshadweep, Sikkim, Andaman and Nicobar
Islands, Dadar and Nagar Haweli.
● First rail agent—Sir Roland Mcganal
Stephen.
● First person who got the train reserved—
Jamashedji G. G. Bhai.
● First rail auditor—Lt. Col. Chesney.
● Beginning of A.C. Coach in India—In 1936.
● Beginning of Fairy Queen—In 1855.
● First electrical engine of India—Mahalakshmi.
● Name of first private train—Deccan Queen.
● Second private train—Palace-on-Wheel.
● First railway postal service in India—1907.
● The longest distance train in India—Vivek
Express (from Debrugarh to Kanyakumari,
4,286 km.)
● Superfast train of narrow gauge—Pink City
Express (Delhi—Jaipur)
● Beginning of insurance in railway—1 April,
1994, with the name ‘train passenger insu-
rance scheme’.
● Name of the insurance company—United
India Insurance Company.
● Present cost of platform ticket— 5.
● Sub-urban trains—Electrical trains which
connect metropolitan cities like Mumbai,
Chennai and Kolkata to their neighbouring
sub-urban cities.
● Railway budget was separated from the
general budget since 1924-25.
● Rail budget is presented by the railway
minister, a few days before the general
budget.
● First live-telecast of rail budget took place on
24 March, 1994.
● Railway minister, Jagjivan Ram presented the
rail budget for the maximum number of times,
that is, continuously seven times.
● There is no first class compartment in Janata
Express.
● 13·28 lakh people are employed in Indian
Railway, which is the highest number in any
enterprize of the world. This is 40% of total
employees of union government.
● Indian Railway started unigauge scheme in
1992. Under this plan, narrow gauge and
metre gauge rail lines are to be converted into
broad gauge.
● Bandra (Mumbai) was the first railway station
of the country, where a private company was
authorised to display the advertisement.
● Hazarat Nizamuddin was the first railway
station of India, the maintenance of which
was handed over to a private company—The
J.K. Tyres.
● Mrs. Indira Gandhi had started Metro rail
(underground rail or tube rail) scheme in
1972. Now metro rail is well developed in
Kolkata. It started on 24 October, 1984. Its
total length is 25 km. Professional metro rail
line continues from Dumdum to New
Garia
After Kolkata, metro rail plan was accepted
on 17th September, 1996.
● The then Prime Minister, Atal Bihari
Vajpayee, inaugurated formally the Delhi
Metro Railway on 24 December, 2002.
● The trains running between India and
Pakistan are ‘Samajhota Express’ and ‘Thar
Express’.
● Maitri Express is running between India and
Bangladesh.
● Shatabdi Express started in 1988 on the
occasion of Pt. Nehru’s birth centenary. The
first Shatabdi Express ran between Delhi and
Bhopal.
● Steam engines were manufactured in
Chittaranjan.
● After 1971, production of steam engines was
closed.
● Railway staff college is situated in Varodara.
● Indian Railway Institute of Advance Tech-
nology—Pune.
Signal Engineering and Telecommunication
Institute—Secunderabad.
● Indian Railway Institute of Electrical Engi-
neering—Nasik.
● Indian Railway Institute of Mechanical and
Electrical Engineering—Jamalpur.
● Railway Service Commission—Allahabad.
● Public enterprizes under Indian Railway—
1. Rail India Technical and Economic
Services, Ltd. (RITES)
2. Indian Railway Construction Company
Ltd. (IRCON)
3. Indian Railway Finance Corporation Ltd.
(IRFC)
4. Container Corporation of India Ltd.
(CONCOR)
5. Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd. (KRC)
● Before Independence, maximum development
of railway in India took place during 1900–
1914. Viceroy Lord Curzon played significant
role in development of railway.
● Rail-fare tribunal started functioning in
March, 1924.
● Assam was linked by railway in 1950.
● During 1943-44, at the time of draught, two
slogans about railway were very famous :
(A) Production of railway wagons should
continue without any hindrance.
(B) Travel, only when it is inevitable.
● At the dawn of independence in 1947, total
length of railway line was 54532 km. In 1947,
only 388 km railway line was electrified.
● 760 km long Konkan railway is the first
railway of the country which was constructed
with public fund. This railway line joins Roha
(Apta) and Mangalore. It passes through
comparatively backward areas of the three
states—Maharashtra (382 km), Goa (105 km)
and Karnataka (273 km). On this line,
maximum speed of a train is 160 km/hr.
Under this scheme, there are 53 railway
stations, 1930 bridges and 92 tunnels.
● Fairy Queen, running on the main rail road, is
the oldest locomotive of the world. Thompson
and Hevypson Company of Britain has
manufactured this locomotive for East India
Company. This train runs between Delhi
Cantt and Alwar. There are 60 seats in the
train.
● By 31st March, 2011, total railway stations in
India is about 7,133.
● By 31st March, 2011, the length of traffic
railway line was 64,460 km.
● By 31st March, 2011, length of electrified
Track (Route) is 19,609 km.
● Total railway engines (As on 31st March,
2011) — 9,213
Steam engines — 43
Diesel engines — 5,137
Electric engines — 4,033
● Number of wagons are 2,29,381 (As on 31st
March, 2011).
● The then railway minister, Prakash Chandra
Sethi, had started ‘Palace on the Wheel’ train
in 1982
Swarna Jayanti trains were started on the
golden jubilee day of independence.
● Steam engine was invented by Thomas in
1698 (U.K).
● Steam engine piston—Thomas Newcamen
1712 (U.K.).
● Steam condenser—James Watt, 1765 (U.K.).
● Locomotive—Richard Ivachick, 1804 (U.K.).
● Diesel engine—Rudolf Diesel, 1895
(Germany).
● For National hospital the Life Line Express
started from Bombay on 16 July, 1991. It was
the first train of its kind in the world.
● First railway minister to tender resignation
due to rail accident was Lal Bahadur Shastri.
● Indian Railway was divided into nine zones.
Two new zones, with headquarters in Hazipur
and Jaipur, started functioning since
1 October, 2002. Headquarters of rest five
new zones are : East-Coastal Railway
(Bhubaneshwar), North-Central Railway
(Allahabad), South-Western Railway (Hubli),
West-Central Railway (Jabalpur) and South-
East-Central Railway (Bilaspur). These five
new zones started functioning from 1 April,
2003. At present, there are 17 working zones
in India.
● Sampurna Kranti Express between Patna and
Delhi was started on the occasion of birth
Centenary of Loknayak Jaiprakash Narayan.
● During the year 2009-10, total running track
length was 87,087 km.