INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

Detailed explanation-1: -The first train in the Indian subcontinent steamed off from Mumbai Railway Station (called Bori Bunder at that time) on 16th April, 1853.

Detailed explanation-2: -On 16th April 1853, the first passenger train ran between Bori Bunder (Bombay) and Thane, a distance of 34 km. It was operated by three locomotives, named Sahib, Sultan and Sindh, and had thirteen carriages.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1853, the first-ever passenger train in India ran from Bombay to Thane, under the management of the Great Indian Peninsular railway. The following year, on 15 August 1854, the first-ever train steamed out of Howrah station, just across the river from the imperial capital of Calcutta.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Indian Railways is the largest public sector undertaking in the country. The first train steamed off from Mumbai to Thane in 1853, covering a distance of 34 km.

Detailed explanation-5: -The first passenger train steamed out of Howrah station destined for Hooghly, a distance of 24 miles, on 15th August, 1854. Thus the first section of the East Indian Railway was opened to public traffic, inaugurating the beginning of railway transport on the Eastern side of the sub-continent.