Indian Railways is the backbone of the country. IR is one of the largest rail network in the world. A tour is worthless without a rail travel.
It is one of the world's largest railway networks comprising 115,000 km of track over a route of 65,000 km and 7,500
stations. Indian Railways carries about 7,500 million passengers annually or more
than 20 million passengers daily and 2.8 million tons of freight daily. In 2011-2012 Indian
Railways earned 104,278.79 crore which consists of 69,675.97 crore from freight and 28,645.52 crore from passengers tickets.
Its also provides huge number of employment to the people of India. Indian Railways is the world's ninth largest commercial or utility employer, by number of employees, with over 1.4 million employees.
IR operates both long distance and suburban rail systems on a multi-gauge network of broad, metre and narrow gauges.
IR operates both long distance and suburban rail systems on a multi-gauge network of broad, metre and narrow gauges.
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