GK
INDIAN ECONOMY
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1769
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1825
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1850
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1875
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Detailed explanation-1: -Commencement of Railways.-The first railway line in India covering 34 kms. between Boribunder (Bombay) and Thana was opened to traffic on 16th April, 1853, barely 28years after the World’s first train roads its initial successful run between Stockton and Darlington in England in 1825.
Detailed explanation-2: -16 April 1853, was the date when first rail ran in India by British.
Detailed explanation-3: -On April 16, 1853, the Indian subcontinent saw its first ever passenger train journey. Four hundred lucky guests had signed up for a historic trip from Mumbai’s Bori Bunder to Thane in Maharashtra, on a train run by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway.
Detailed explanation-4: -1830, was the first modern, inter-city passenger railway. It was the first to rely exclusively on steam power, run a scheduled passenger service and use a system of signalling.