Indian Railway Museum

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Indian railway history dates back more than 100 years when the British first introduced the steam train in 1853 between Bombay and Thana.

Since then Indian railways have come a long way. The vast network is divided and managed by 6 major dvisions such as Southern railway for south, Northeastern railway and so on. Almost all the nooks and corners of India can be reached by rail. For such a vast country that is a major achievement indeed.

On top of that India manufactures all its carriages and engines indegenously, nothing is imported. As a result Indian railways is the largest employer in the world have more than 1.6 million employees(1,600,000 people) ! That's a mind boggling stuff. Indians are appropriatly and extremely proud of their achievements.

Nowadays almost all the rail network runs either by electric power or diesel power. The engines are computerised and the carriages are very mordern comparable to any western rails with AC and reclining chairs. Railways hot food cattering will provide you with lovely food on demand.

This museum is a celebration of the mammoth Indian railways steam engines that are long gone. They have restored many of the old engines to its former glory and displayed it magnificently. There is a small toy train takes you in circle to give you a great introduction of things to see and ponder.

The two world heritage mountain railways - Himalyan Darjeeling railway and Nilgiris mountain railway are the jewel of the museum and have been duly displayed wonderfully.

You will need about 1 hour at-least to visit it. If you get a chance please do.

Please look at the self explanatory photos.

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Comments

[Teman]

I don't understand !
Hello sprasanta, What you mean by that. Could you please explain. regards, ken.

[ayushbalagopal]

execllent
very good

[U.R.Athale]

Private museum
Dear Sir, We are in process of establishing private museum of our company and the history is very well connected and appropriate with indian railways.we are looking for the right approch to have Old meter gauge steam engine passanger bogies and goods bogies with guard coach.We will be happy and oblige to have right Department / persons in indian railway who will be dealing in the matter. Thanks and regards U.R.Athale 09822011147

[Mukesh Kumar Bansal]

we realy feel proud on our workers/staf/and all the member of the managements of the railways musuem,to keep clean,beautiful,and in excelent conditions of our national railways properties. excelent ,every indians should proud on all of them

[rimi]

www.bharatrail.net
I want to draw attention to the problem that as far as the official railways site it so bad . they should do something about it . there r many private site trying to get more user friendly just like http://bharatrail.net/ which i found very useful for the railways inquiry. its very user friendly in term of the information about the reservation pnr inquiry and train schedule. hope they also do something like that

[kumarmanimela]

hi
very nise

[yogesh chopra]

website
this is very good website photos is incridible.

[jwalin singh]

about the photos above
really the great photos when we see all the above photos we came to know our old engineers how much they struggle to make this with their efforts now we are able to running on electricity and speed jai hind

[pankaj]

thanks
verryyyyyyyyyy excilent , emprissive

[iamrishab]

first time i see railway museum IRCTC PNR Status