The journey of railways in Indian
sub-continent started modestly in 1853 with 34 kilometers (kms). Iron wheels
rolled on rails on 16th April, 1853, where the first-ever train, with a capital
of Rs 3.8 million, carrying 400 people in 14 carriages, covered the 21-mile
distance in about 75 minutes from Bombay to Thane.
The Railway Board in 1950 decided
for the regrouping of the Indian Railways into six zonal systems, namely, the
Northern, the North Eastern, the Southern, the Central, the Eastern and the
Western Railways. By the year 1958, there were eight zones on Indian Railways. The
formation of South Central Railway in 1966 as the ninth zone, in order to
improve the services for the southern parts of India. At Present there are
17 railway zone.
The Metro Railway of Kolkata, the
country's became the 17th Railway Zone in 2010. It was on this day in 1972 when
the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had laid the foundation stone for the
Kolkata Metro which initially connected Dum Dum in the north to Tollygunje in
the South.
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