INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

Detailed explanation-1: -The first train in India ran from Red Hills to Chintadripet bridge in 1836–1837. It was called the Red Hill Railway and used a rotary steam locomotive manufactured by William Avery. The railway was built by Sir Arthur Cotton and was mainly used for transporting granite stones for road-building work in Madras.

Detailed explanation-2: -Locomotion No. 1 was built by George Stephenson at his son Robert’s company, the Robert Stephenson and Company. George Stephenson drove the first train. The engine was called Active (later renamed Locomotion).

Detailed explanation-3: -The country’s first transport train, Red Hill Railway (built by Arthur Cotton to transport granite for road-building), ran from Red Hills to the Chintadripet bridge in Madras in 1836-1837.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1845, at Dowleswaram in Rajahmundry, the Godavari Dam Construction Railway was built.-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-5: -Captain A T Cotton was appointed to start the project with Lieutenant Johnstone as his assistant. The construction involved a 3⅜ miles railway from the entrance of Red Hills quarry linking to a 1½ miles canal, across the Retteri Tank (Lake) with an embankment dividing the lake.