By- Harish Kunwar : Year 1836, A small piece of rail-line was laid near Chindadripet in Madras, now Chennai.
Year 1844
Active campaigning for rail-lines near St. Petersburg.
Year 1849
East Indian Railway (EIR) Company and Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIP) Company granted financial guarantee for construction and operation of rail-lines in India. Agreements signed.
Year 1850
Work on rail-lines began in East and West by EIR and GIP Railway respectively.
Year 1853
First Railway line from Bombay to Thane was inaugurated on 16th April 1853 by GIP Railway.
Year 1854
First Railway line in East from Howrah to Hoogli was inaugurated on 15th August 1854 by EIR.
Year 1855
First Railway line in South from Veyasarpadi to Walajah Road opened for traffic on 1st July 1855 by Madras Railway.
Year 1866
Calcutta (Howrah) linked with Delhi and Bombay via Allahabad.
Year 1871
Metre Gauge was chosen as second standard gauge for India.
Year 1872
First metre gauge line from Delhi to Rewari inaugurated.
Year 1881
Darjeeling Himalayan Railway opens its line to the hills.
Year 1887
Victoria Terminus – A new station building and administrative offices of GIP Railway opened in Mumbai.
Year 1890
Indian Railways Act passed.
Year 1891
Toilets in third class coaches introduced.
Year 1895
First Indian built steam locomotive by Ajmer Workshop.
Year 1900
Welding process of Rails developed.
Year 1902
Indian Railway Conference Association set up.
Year 1903
Kalka-Shimla Railway opens for traffic.
Year 1905
Railway Board assumes office.
Year 1924
Railway Board reconstituted with Chief Commissioner as President and an ex-officio Secretary to Government of India and two Members.
Year 1930
Central Standards Office (CSO) under Chief Controller of Standardisation set up to standardize all equipments commonly in use on Railways.
Year 1936
Air-conditioning introduced in passenger coaches.
Year 1937
Post of Minister for Transport and Communication created; Railway Board placed under the Ministry.
Year 1947
India is Independent, Indian Railways separated into two different systems; India and Pakistan.
Year 1950
Production of steam locomotives started in Chittaranjan Locomotive Works.
Year 1950 –Central Advisory Committee for Railways approves regrouping of Indian Railways in to six Zonal systems.
Year 1951
Formation of Southern, Western and Central Railways.
Year 1952
Railway Staff College, Vadodara set up.
Integral Coach Factory (ICF), Madras set up as a production unit for all welded steel, light weight integral coaches.
Formation of Eastern, Northern and North Eastern Railways.
Year 1954
Position of Chief Commissioner for Railways renamed as Chairman, Railway Board.
Year 1955
Indian Railways Institute for Civil Engineering (IRICEN) at Pune set up.
South Eastern Railway formed
Year 1956
Divisional system of administration planned for various Zonal Railways.
Fully Air-conditioned Trains introduced between Howrah-Delhi and Delhi-Bombay.
Year 1957
Indian Railways Institute for Signal Engineering and Telecommunication (IRISET) at Secunderabad set up.
Research, Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO), Lucknow set up after merger of various Standards Committees and CSO.
Year 1958
North East Frontier Railway formed.
Year 1959
Post of Member Mechanical created in the Railway Board.
Year 1961
Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW) set up at Varanasi.
Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW) started manufacture of electric locomotives.
Year 1966
South Central Railway formed out of Central Railway and Southern Railway.
First container service started between Bombay and Ahmedabad.
Year 1967
Start of use of Cement Concrete sleepers on Indian Railways.
Year 1969
New Delhi – Howrah Rajdhani Express introduced.
Year 1973
Chittaranjan Locomotive Works stops production of Steam Locos.
Year 1974
Rail India Technical & Economic Services Ltd. (RITES) formed.
Year 1976
Indian Railway Construction Corporation Ltd. (IRCON) formed.
Year 1977
National Rail Museum for preservation and promotion of heritage tourism, education and entertainment opened.
Year 1979
Central Organisation for Railway Electrification (CORE) formed.
Year 1984
First Metro Rail System was introduced in Kolkata.
Year 1985
Computerised Passenger Reservation System (PRS) introduced.
Year 1986
Indian Railways Institute for Electrical Engineering (IRIEE) at Nasik set up.
Year 1987
Diesel Component Works (DCW) now DMW, Patiala set up.
Rail Coach Factory (RCF) established at Kapurthala.
Year 1988
First Shatabdi train introduced between New Delhi and Jhansi.
Container Corporation of India (CONCOR) established..
Year 1989
Indian Railway Welfare Organisation (IRWO) set up as a registered society.
Year 1991
Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS) at Chennai inaugurated.
Year 1992
Unigauge Policy adopted on the Indian Railways.
Year 1998
Konkan Railway system becomes fully operational.
Guinness certificate for “Fairy Queen’ of 1855 make – the oldest working steam Locomotive in the world.
Year 1999
Darjeeling Himalayan Railway declared World Heritage site by UNESCO.
Guinness Certificate for Delhi Main Station equipped with the World’s largest Route Relay Interlocking System.
Year 2002
Introduction of Jan Shatabdi Trains.
East Central (Headquarters {HQ}-Hajipur) and North Western Railway (HQ-Jaipur) become operational on 1st October.
Year 2003
East Coast Railway (HQ – Bhubaneswar); South East Central Railway (HQ-Bilaspur)’ West Central Railway (HQ-Jabalpur); North Central Railway (HQ-Allahabad); South Western Railway (HQ-Hubli) opened on 1st April.
Year 2004
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus building inscribed World Heritage status by UNESCO. Reservation through Internet introduced.
Year 2005
Nilgiri Mountain Railway declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
E-ticketing introduce in all trains.
Year 2006
Introduction of free up-gradation of passengers to higher classes of accommodation since 26.1.06.
Scheme, allowing private operators to run container trains, launched.
Garib Rath introduced for common people with the facilities of AC Class at affordable fares.
Munabao (India) – Khokrapar (Pakistan) rail link was restored on 18.2.06.
Year 2007
A universal common train enquiry telephone No. 139, introduced throughout the country.
Year 2008
Highest ever surplus (before dividend) of Rs. 25.000/- crore earned and highest ever freight loading of 794 million tonnes achieved during fiscal 2007-08.
First ever train service flagged-off in Kashmir Valley on 11.10.08.
Agartala, capital of Tripura, a state of North Eastern region was linked with rail network
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1. What is the minimum distance one must leave between center of RR to Edge of Residencial Building
2. What is the minimum distance one must leave between center of RR to Edge of commercial(High rise) Building.
3. Where we can see this in Railway website
Please reply.
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B Gowda
.
1. What is the minimum distance one must leave between center of RR
to Edge of Residencial Building.
2. What is the minimum distance one must leave between center of RR to Edge of highrise Building
Please reply
Thanks
B Gowda
1. What is the minimum distance one must leave between center of RR to Edge of Residencial Building
2. What is the minimum distance one must leave between center of RR to Edge of commercial(High rise) Building.
3. Where we can see this in Railway website
Please reply.
Thanks
B Gowda