INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

Detailed explanation-1: -Kalka Mail (Officially as Netaji Express) is the oldest running train in India. This train connects Howrah in Kolkata, capital of the State of West Bengal to Kalka in the North-Western state of Haryana.

Detailed explanation-2: -Over 16 years older than the glamorous Frontier Mail, the Punjab Mail or Punjab Limited as she was then called, first steamed out on June 1, 1912. The Ballard Pier Mole, from where it started its journey, was a hub for British-era Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GPIR) services.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Fairy Queen is the oldest running train in the world. As the Guinness Book of Records documented, the Fairy Queen in India is the steam locomotive with the oldest running history worldwide.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Howrah-Kalka Mail was used by the Britishers under erstwhile British India to travel Shimla, which was the summer capital of India to connect the two capitals of the country and was patronised by British civil servants. The train first operated on 01 January 1866 and was known as Howrah-Peshawar Express.

Detailed explanation-5: -The country’s first transport train, Red Hill Railroad (built by Arthur Cotton to transport granite for road-building), ran from Red Hills to the Chintadripet bridge in Madras in 1836-1837.