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title: "Amazing Facts About Indian Railway"  
description: "Indian Railways – the lifeline of transport system in our country, is evidently a huge setup, and an organization with numerous branches. Here's some facts"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-12-04  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1748/amazing-facts-about-indian-railway  
category: "railways"  
tags: ["Railways", "Indian railways", "Indian train", "railway facts", "Indian railways facts"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Amazing Facts About Indian Railway

![Amazing Facts About Indian Railway](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/04c1a9b1-6db3-4339-8bd3-227c25a8f893/images/0f0db2d0-e85c-45c4-a1b1-49f1590dfaf1.jpeg) ![Amazing Facts About Indian Railway](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/04c1a9b1-6db3-4339-8bd3-227c25a8f893/images/0f0db2d0-e85c-45c4-a1b1-49f1590dfaf1.jpeg) Indian Railways is the largest railways network to be operated by a single government and is the world’s third largest network length of 127,760 kms. ![Amazing Facts About Indian Railway](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/04c1a9b1-6db3-4339-8bd3-227c25a8f893/images/01f31aa2-2d67-4956-9cfc-4f3eccdf35ed.jpeg) Indian Railways owned the longest railway platform in the world at Kharagpur with a length of 2,733 feet. Gorakhpur with 4,430 feet is the new one ![Amazing Facts About Indian Railway](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/04c1a9b1-6db3-4339-8bd3-227c25a8f893/images/a3e85125-1b85-478d-a659-0ffbcbc0b685.jpeg) Two historical railway elements are included in the UNESCO’ World Heritage site list – Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, and Indian Mountain Railways ![Amazing Facts About Indian Railway](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/04c1a9b1-6db3-4339-8bd3-227c25a8f893/images/7dcf7c84-c079-4024-a7c0-cbb174fb5c75.jpeg) Indian Railways has five luxury trains. ![Amazing Facts About Indian Railway](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/04c1a9b1-6db3-4339-8bd3-227c25a8f893/images/3cef3b28-2b0f-495d-a053-019e728489fe.jpeg) The Vivek Express (Dibrugarh to Kanyakumari) travels a distance of 4273 km, which is the longest run in the railways. ![Amazing Facts About Indian Railway](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/04c1a9b1-6db3-4339-8bd3-227c25a8f893/images/4348fc8e-c560-4fde-a739-8347d50f4ac9.jpeg) The shortest run is taken by a few scheduled services between Nagpur and Ajni – a total of 3 kms. ![Amazing Facts About Indian Railway](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/04c1a9b1-6db3-4339-8bd3-227c25a8f893/images/f2d32212-5ee2-49eb-9aef-1cd115930caf.jpeg) Mathura junction has the maximum number of routes emerging from it.

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