INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

Detailed explanation-1: -On 16th April 1853, the first passenger train ran between Bori Bunder (Bombay) and Thane, a distance of 34 km.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first railway on Indian sub-continent ran over a stretch of 21 miles from Bombay to Thane.

Detailed explanation-3: –Lord Dalhousie dedicated the country’s first passenger train which on 16 April 1853, ran between Bombay’s Bori Bunder station and Thane. The train, which traveled 34 kilometres (21 mi), carried 400 people.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -It manages the fourth largest national railway system in the world by size, with a total route length of 68, 103 km (42, 317 mi) as of 1 February 2023.