1. Who is the Present Railway minister of India?

Answer: C. P. Joshi
2. India's first train ran between:
Answer: Bombay and Thane
3. Where did India's first metro rail start?
Answer: Kolkata
4. Who invented the railway engine?
Answer: George Stephenson
5. Where is the wheel and axle plant of Indian Railways?
Answer: Bangalore
6. When was the first train started in India?
Answer: 1853
7. How many training institutions of Railways are in India?
Answer: Five
8. The railway station situated in the extreme south?
Answer: Kanyakumari
9. When was the nationalization of Indian Railways done?
Answer: 1950
10. Who is known as the Father of Indian Railway?
Answer: Lord Dalhousie
11. Which is the longest running train in India?
Answer: Vivek Express. It runs from Dibrugarh in upper Assam to Kanyakumari at t
he southern tip of Tamil Nadu.
12. Where is India s first railway station?
Answer: Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station in Mumbai.
13. The world's longest railway platform is in India. Where is it?
Answer: Kharagpur
14. Which is the Indian state that have no Railway line?
Answer: Meghalaya
1. Where is Railway Staff College situated ?
Answer: Baroda
2. What is the width of Broad gauge rail ?
Answer: 1.676
3. Which is the First Electric Train in India ?
Answer: Deccan Queen (Kalyan

Pune)

4. When did Life Line Express (Jeevan Rekha) Started ?

Answer: In 1991
5. Which year is declared as

Year of Rail Users

by the Indian Railways ?

Answer: 1995
6. Which is the Longest Railway Tunnel ?
Answer: Pir Panjal Railway Tunnel (Banihal railway tunnel)
7. Which is the Longest Railway platform in the World ?
Answer: Gorakhpur station platform (UP)
8. Which is the train running between India and Bangladesh ?
Answer: Maitree Express
9. Which are the states have no Railway ?
Answer: Meghalaya and Sikkim (building new railway lines)
10. Which is the Worlds oldest working steam locomotive engine(train) ?
Answer: Fairy Queen runs in India
11. What is the width of Narrow gauge rail ?
Answer: 0.762
12. Where is the Headquarters of Konkan railway ?
Answer: Bilapur
13. Which is the fastest train in India ?
Answer: Shatabdi Express
14. In which year Indian Railway board established ?
Answer: 1905
15. Which is the first Railway station in India ?
Answer: Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (Victoria terminal)
16. Who is the first Indian to present Railway Budget ?
Answer: John Mathai
17. Who is the first railway minister in India ?
Answer: Lal Bahadur Shastri
18. Who is the first lady Railway minister of India ?
Answer: Mamta Benergy
19. Which is the highest railway station in India ?
Answer: Ghum railway station
20. Which is the longest Railway bridge in India ?

Answer: Vallarpadam Bridge (kerala)

21. What is the slogan of Indian Railway ?
Answer: lifeline of the nation
22. Where is the Museum of Indian Railway situated?
Answer: Chanakyapuri (New Delhi)
1. On which route is the longest railway tunnel of about 6.5 km situated?
a)
b)
c)
d)

Central Railway
Konkan Railway
Southern Railway
Western Railway

The correct answer is b) Konkan Railway

2. Who is the first woman railway driver?
a)
b)
c)
d)

Rajashree Sachdev
Bhavani Kumari
Ritu Chauhan
Surekha Yadav

The correct answer is d) Surekha Yadav

3. Name the luxury train launched by the Indian Railways to celebrate the countr
y's 50 years of independence.
a)
b)
c)
d)

Rajdhani Express
Swarna Shatabdi
Golden Globe Express
Azadi Express

The correct answer is b) Swarna Shatabdi

4. Which country has the highest railway line in the world?
a)
b)
c)
d)

Tanggula
Australia
India
Japan

The correct answer is a) Tanggula

5. The world's longest railway platform is in India. In which state is it?
a)
b)
c)
d)

Madhya Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh
West Bengal
Punjab

The correct answer is c) West Bengal

6. Which is the only country to have a fully electrified railway network?

a)
b)
c)
d)

Japan
China
India
Switzerland

The correct answer is d) Switzerland

7. How many years of its existence did the Indian Railways celebrate in the year
2002-2003?
a)
b)
c)
d)

50
150
25
100

The correct answer is b) 150

8. After Kolkata, which city in India started a metro railway?
a) New Delhi
b) Mumbai
c) Bangalore
Hyderabad
The correct answer is a) New Delhi
9. Mumbai has the world's busiest suburban railway network. Name it.
a)
b)
c)
d)

Western
Harbour
Central
Eastern

Line
Line
Line
Line

The correct answer is c) Central Line

10. One of these trains connects Mumbai and Aurangabad. Name it.
a)
b)
c)
d)

Sabarmati Express
Deviri Express
Ashram Express
Janata Express

The correct answer is b) Deviri Express