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Railways
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Transportation in India depends heavily on railroads. The railway system, owned
and operated by the government, is the largest in the world under single
management. Each year, more than 4 billion passenger journeys are made by
rail. Railroads also carry about 60 percent of India's freight traffic (421 million
tonnes) every year.
Indian Railways highlights
(2007 est.):
route total: 64,000 km (17,000 km electrified;
12,617 km double track)
broad gauge: 40,620 km 1.676-m gauge
narrow gauge: 18,501 km 1.000-m gauge; 3,794 km
0.762-m/ 0.610-m gauge
track total:
1,07,000
Track Kilometers
Passengers travel per day: 1.7 million
Stations: 6,977
Fleet of trains: 7,000 for passengers and 4,000 for goods
Wagons: 207,176
Indian Railways Revenues
and Surplus
| Year |
Revenue
(Rs Crore) |
Surplus before
Dividend (Rs Crore) |
| 2004-05 |
47,370 |
4,612 |
| 2005-06 |
54,491 |
9,118 |
| 2006-07 |
63,220 |
13,000 |
| 2007-08 |
71,218 (est) |
21,578 |
India cities are connected by express trains, and there are local trains between most
parts of the country. Rail-link buses serve areas not on the network. An underground
railway began operating in Calcutta in 1995.
The world's longest rail line is in Russia. It extends about 5,600
miles (9,010 kilometers) and connects Moscow and Vladivostok. Laid end-to-end, the tracks
of the world's main railroad routes would stretch about 750,000 miles (1,207,000
kilometers)--about 3.25 times the distance from the earth to the moon.
World Railways statistics, 2004
Sources: CIA; International Union of Railways; Statistics Canada; UN.
| Country |
Length of track (km) |
United States
Russia
Canada
China
India
Germany |
240,000
154,000
78,150
65,780
62,915
43,460 |
| Country |
No. of Passenger-Km |
Japan
China
India
Russia
Ukraine |
396,336,000,000
363,276,000,000
316,728,000,000
227,100,000,000
70,884,000,000 |
Note:
- Passenger-Km signifies the multiple of number of passengers times their distance
travelled in Km's.
- Japan figures are high due to its high population density and over-reliance
on trains
- The figure is higher for China as distances are higher in China than in India
| Country |
No. of ton-Km |
United States
China
Russia
Canada
India |
1,759,464,000,000
1,242,600,000,000
1,195,164,000,000
279,510,000,000
252,588,000,000 |
Note:
- Ton-Km signifies the multiple of tons of freight transported times their distance
travelled in Km's.
- India is ranked only fifth as other countries have a bigger geographical area.
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Facts:
- Indian railways is the largest railway network in the
world under single management.- Indian railways carries the most
passengers (4 billion) in the world.
- Indian Railways is one of the largest employers (15.8 lakh employees)
in the world.
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