INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

Detailed explanation-1: -The first railway proposal in India was made at Madras. Chintadripet, near Madras, was the site of an experimental small railway line. The country’s first train ran from Red Hills to Madras’ Chintadripet Bridge. It was pulled by a spinning steam locomotive engine.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first passenger train in India ran between Bombay (Bori Bunder) and Thane on 16 April 1853. The 14-carriage train was hauled by three steam locomotives – Sahib, Sindh and Sultan; it carried 400 people and ran on a line of 34 kilometres (21 mi) built and operated by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Royapuram railway station in Chennai is India’s oldest surviving railway station. This station is still functional even as it enters its 167th year. The Royapuram station sent the first train of southern India chugging out, on June 28, 1856.

Detailed explanation-4: -It was 154 years ago the Madras Railway Company cut the first sod to get underway the networking of South India by railway. The work for laying first track by Madras Guaranteed Railway Company between Chennai and Arcot was started in the year 1852 and in the year 1856 first train run between Royapuram and Arcot.