TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION
RAILWAYS
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Question
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Siddhi, Babar, and Sultan
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Sahib, Sindh, and Sultan
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None of these.
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none of above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -On September 27, 1825, Locomotion No. 1 became the world’s first steam locomotive to carry passengers on a public line, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, in North East England.
Detailed explanation-4: -No one seems to know what happened to the locomotives Sahib and Sultan. They just vanished. Sindh was luckier. The locomotive was last seen on a plinth at what used to be the Byculla office of GIPR (Great Indian Peninsula Railway) in Mumbai.