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INTRODUCTIONOFINDIAN RAILWAY

Indian Railways is the state-owned railway company of India. It comes under theMinistry of Railways. Indian Railways has one of the largest and busiest rail networks in the world, transporting over 18 million passengers and more than 2 million tonnes of freight daily. Its revenue is Rs.107.66 billion. It is the world's largest commercial employer, with more than 1.4 million employees. It operatesrail transport on 6,909 stations over a total route length of more than 63,327kilometers(39,350 miles).The fleet of Indian railway includes over 200,000 (freight) wagons, 50,000 coaches and 8,000 locomotives. It also owns locomotive and coach production facilities. It was founded in 1853 under the East India Company.Indian Railways is administered by the Railway Board. Indian Railways is dividedinto 16 zones. Each zone railway is made up of a certain number of divisions. There are a total of sixty-seven divisions.It also operates the Kolkata metro. There are six manufacturing plants of the Indian Railways. The total length of track used by Indian Railways is about 108,805 km (67,608 mi) while the total routelength of the network is 63,465 km (39,435 mi). About 40% of the total track kilometer is electrified & almost all electrified sections use 25,000 V AC. Indianrailways uses four rail track gaugesIndian Railways operates about 9,000 passenger trains and transports 18 millionpassengers daily .Indian Railways makes 70% of its revenues and most of its profits from the freight sector, and uses these profits to cross-subsidies the loss

-making passenger sector. The Rajdhani Express and Shatabdi Express are the fastest trains of India.