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7 Amazing Facts About The Indian Railways You Never Knew 

1.Loco-pilots (train drivers) are paid more than an average software engineer
Salaries are the tune of Rs. 1 Lakh per month and more.
 2.Indian Railway is constructing the highest rail bridge over Chenab, in J&K
Five times the height of Qutub Minar, it will be taller than the Eiffel Tower.
 3.The Indian Railways website gets close to 12 Lakh hits per minute
Hourly traffic on IRTC.com is more than annual traffic of some of the most popular Indian websites. It can support almost 5 million threads at one time. But, we’ve got more people than that.
Hence the never ending trolls.

4. If the tracks of Indian railways were to be laid out, they would circle the earth almost 1.5 times


 5.The station with the longest name isVenkatanarasimharajuvaripeta
And it’s sometimes spelled with ‘Sri’ prefixed. Quite a mouthful.

 6.The longest tunnel in the country is 11.215 kilometers long!
It is the Pir Panjal Railway tunnel in Jammu and Kashmir.



7.A massively successful organization – running 11,000 trains in a day is no joke!



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