Abstract:
The Indian Railways (IR), the economic lifeline of India, is an enterprise owned and operated by the Government of India.IR today is the largest network in Asia and one the largest network in the world. Its network consists of 121,407 kilometers covering 66000 route kilometers with 7,172 railway stations. The route of 66,000 kilometers of Indian Railways is more than one and a half times the circumference of the earth. Every day, the distance travelled by all the trains of Indian railways together is 1.5 times the distance from earth to moon. IR runs 13000 trains to carry more than 23 million passengers daily which is equivalent to moving the entire population of Australia...
