UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Indian Railway

There are two UNESCO World Heritage Sites on IR viz. the Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus and the Mountain railways of India.  Mountain railways of India is not contiguous, but consists of three separate railway lines located in different parts of the ..

General Knowledge Facts for Indian Railways

Indian Railway is World’s fourth largest railway US, Russia and China. It carries some 23 million passengers everyday and around 1060 million tons of freight in a year. As on 31.03.2011, the route length of Indian Railways is around 1.14 ..

Acworth Committee on Indian Railways

In 1920, an East Indian Railway Committee was constituted under the chairmanship of Sir William Acworth. This committee consisted of 10 members and among them 3 were Indians viz. V S Sriniwas Sastri (Member of Council of States) , Purshottam ..

MacKay Commission on Indian Railways

Sir James MacKay Commission was set up by Secretary of States for India, John Morley in 1907 to look into the problems of administration and finances of Railways. The commission found out that there was a friction in the Government ..

Robertson commission & Establishment of Railway Board in India

In 1900, Railways showed a small profit for the first time. In 1901, Thomas Robertson was appointed the special commissioner to examine the organization and working of the Railway and thus began the drastic changes in the administration of the ..

Guarantee System in Indian Railways

Originally, the Indian railways were operated by the private companies owned by the British businessmen. They were granted free land and given a guarantee of minimum returns on capital. Guarantee System These two companies entered into contract with East India ..

First Railway in India

The earliest proposals for railways in India were made in Great Britain in the 1840s. The proposals involved construction of Railways by companies incorporated in England and a minimum profit being guaranteed by the East India Company. With this, the ..

Bibek Debroy Committee Recommendations

The Bibek Debroy Committee is a high level committee for “Mobilization of Resources for Major Railway Projects and Restructuring of Railway Ministry and Railway Board” created by NDA Government after coming into power in 2014. This is yet another Biblical size ..