General Knowledge

– Indian Railways
By M Nageswara Rao
9492432160
 You can jump off the train, light up
a smoke, take few drags and climb
on the train again.

Name the slowest train in India ?

10-Oct-21 2
 ANSWER
World heritage
site by UNESCO

Nilgiri mountain Rail

From Mettupalayam to Ooty
46 Kms in 5 hours
@10kmph

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• IDENTIFY THE MANUFACTURER OF THESE COACHES ?
• The lighter and faster coaches

10-Oct-21 4
 ANSWER

TALGO of Spain
(Tren Articulado Ligero Goicoechea Oriol)
10-Oct-21 5
 Linking of DA (Dearness
Allowance) of Central
Government employees is
related with which Index ?

10-Oct-21 6
 ANSWER

AICPI (IW)
All India Consumer Price Index
(Industrial Workers)
Base year : 2001 – 100
Current year 2016 Apr - 271

10-Oct-21 7
 Shortest Railway
Station Name in
India is ?
10-Oct-21 8
 ANSWER

• IB station
• is the station with the shortest name on
Indian Railways.
• in Odisha, in SECR. It marks the end of SECR
and the starting of South Eastern Railways.
• Longest name is
“Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta” in Southern
Railway – 28 Letters
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 Who is the first IRAS Officer

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 ANSWER

C T Venugopal

First IRAS Officer -C T Venugopal, IRAS, 1930

First IRAS FC -Mr K S Bhandari, IRAS, 1939
First IRAS officer secretary to Govt of India -Y T Shah,
IRAS, 1944
First IRAS General ManagerMr R Narsimhan, IRAS, 1955
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 Audience question - 8
• Where you find loaded goods trucks are
carried piggy back on railway flat wagons in
India ?

10-Oct-21 12
 ANSWER

Konkan Railways
innovative Roll-on Roll-
off service started in 1999.

10-Oct-21
 AUDIENCE QUESTION - 2
• Name the proposed World class R & D
organisation for Indian Railways ?

• (other than RDSO, Lucknow)

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 ANSWER

• SRESTHA
• Special Railway Establishment for Strategic
Technology and Holistic Advancement

• (RDSO will now focus only on day to day issues

while SRESTHA would drive long term
research)

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• Name the Steam locomotive

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ANSWER

The Fairy Queen, Worlds oldest

working steam locomotive
(between New Delhi and Alwar)

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 Before the year 1905 (i.e., Railway
Board established ), Railways were
under the control of
_____________ Department

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ANSWER

PWD
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
(RAILWAY BRANCH)

10-Oct-21 19
 What is the
width of
Standard Gauge

(adopted in
Metro Railways
in India)

10-Oct-21 20
 ANSWER

4 ft 8 1⁄2 or 1,435 mm

Minimum Gauge 381 mm(15 in)

Maximum Gauge - 2,140 mm(7

ft 1⁄4 in)
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 Expand MTRC

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 ANSWER

for providing full

duplex
communication
between Driver,
Mobile Train Radio Guard, ASM, LC Gate
Communication & approaching trains
as well as
maintenance staff
on A, B & C routes of
Indian Railways.

10-Oct-21 23
 Name the starting and ending
points of Eastern Dedicated
Freight Corridor of Indian
Railways ?

10-Oct-21 24
 ANSWER

Dankuni (Near Kolkata) to

Ludhiana covering 1839 kms

(Western DFC is from

Jawaharlal Nehru Port
Terminal (JNPT), Mumbai –
Dadri,U.P covering 1499 kms

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 Indian Railways have
developed
environment-friendly
Bio-toilets for use in
coaches. The
technology has been
developed jointly by IR
and _____________
( Organisation)

10-Oct-21 26
 ANSWER

DRDO -
Defence Research &
Development
Organization

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 Name the vehicle ?

10-Oct-21 28
 ANSWER

RCRV – Rail Cum Road Vehicle

(A first of its kind Rail-cum-Road-
Vehicle (RCRV) that can run at a
speed of 60 kilometers per hour
both on railway track and roads. It
is designed by Diesel Loco
Modernisation Works, Patiala)
10-Oct-21 29
 This sign board at side of the Track
indicates ?

10-Oct-21 30
 ANSWER

Whistle Long
for Level
Crossing
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 New Name of
Bangalore city
Railway Station

10-Oct-21 32
 ANSWER

‘Krantivira Sangolli
Rayanna' railway
station

He was prominent warrior from

Karnataka. (1798 -1831)
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 MAHAMANA
EXPRESS FROM
VARANASI TO NEW
DELHI IS NAMED
AFTER ?

10-Oct-21 34
 ANSWER
• MAHAMANA EXPRESS is named after Pt. Shri
Madan Mohan Malaviya, a freedom fighter &
an educationist who established Banaras
Hindu University, Varanasi, which is one of the
Asia's largest residential universities.
• He was popularly called Mahamana or a
“great human being”.
• The name was chosen by Minister of State for
Railways Manoj Sinha, an alumnus of the BHU

10-Oct-21 35
 New name for porters in Indian railways is

10-Oct-21 36
 ANSWER

Sahayak
(will be trained in
soft skills)

10-Oct-21 37
 India’s first rail auto hub (transportation
of cars) proposed at ?

10-Oct-21 38
 ANSWER

Chennai
(loading capacity of
300 vehicles)

10-Oct-21 39
 New name given for
handicapped/differently
abled in India ?

10-Oct-21 40
 ANSWER

DIVYANG
(Divine body)

10-Oct-21
• Identify the train in India ?
 ANSWER

DHR – Darjeeling Himalayan

Railways – Toy train
 IRITM – Indian Railway
Institute of Transport
Management is located at ?

10-Oct-21 44
ANSWER

LUCKNOW

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 What is the VIKALP scheme in Indian
Railways ?

10-Oct-21 46
 ANSWER

Allotment of confirmed
accommodation in
alternative trains for
waitlisted passengers
(Vikalp means alternative)
10-Oct-21 47
 Name the Busiest
Railway Junction in
India ?
10-Oct-21 48
 ANSWER

Lucknow
64 trains come in and
move out, every day

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 Name the Railway Station
having longest platform in
India ?

10-Oct-21 50
ANSWER

Hubballi Railway
Station
1505 meters length
(surpasses Gorakhpur
with 1366 meters

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 Name the Highest Railway
Station in India ?

10-Oct-21 52
 Ghum Railway
Station, West ANSWER
Bengal, Darjeeling
railways (2258 Mtrs
height)

10-Oct-21 53
Who allotted the Alpha
codes (like NDLS to New
Delhi Station) to the
Railway Stations in India
?
10-Oct-21 54
 ANSWER
Northern Railway
(previously by IRCA
Indian Railways
Conference Association)
(Generated nearly 16000
Station Codes so far. Had a
capacity to generate
4,75,254 codes out of 26
alphabets)
10-Oct-21 55
 What is the name given for
Gate counselors employed at
unmanned LC gates to avoid
accidents ?

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 ANSWER

“Gate Mitra”

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 What is QR code

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 ANSWER

Quick Response
(A machine-readable optical label that
contains information about the item to
which it is attached.)

10-Oct-21 59
 The only currency note
which bears signature
of Finance Secretary
(not by RBI Governor)
is _____
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 ANSWER

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 ANSWER
• Reasons are :
• bank notes consists as per RBI ACT are the
denominational values of 2 rupees, 5 rupees,
10 rupees, 20 rupees, 50 rupees, 100 rupees,
500 hundred rupees, 1,000 rupees, 5,000 and
10,000 thousand rupees.
• Status of 1 rupee is coin only (not currency
note)

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 Which train has been
renamed with PSU brand
name ?

10-Oct-21 63
 ANSWER
Vizag Steel Samta Express
between Visakhapatnam
and H.Nizamuddin

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 What is Tri-
Netra proposed
in Indian
10-Oct-21
Railways? 65
 ANSWER
• TRI-NETRA consists of 1)High-resolution optical
video camera 2) High sensitivity infra-red video
camera and 3) a radar-based terrain mapping
system.
These three shall act as three eyes (Tri-Netra) of
the Locomotive Pilot.
It helps to “see” the terrain ahead of the running
locomotive during inclement weather to avoid
accidents.

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 India’s first
Electric train
runs between
____ and _____
in 1925
10-Oct-21 67
 ANSWER

between Bombay
Victoria Terminus
and Kurla (1500 Volts
DC)

10-Oct-21 68
 Name the India’s
Longest route
express train ?

10-Oct-21 69
 ANSWER
VIVEK EXPRESS (weekly)
(started in 2013 to commemorate the
150th Birth anniversary of Swami
Vivekananda)
From Kanyakumari to Dibrugarh Town
Distance – 4263 KMs
Time -78 hours
Halts - 55

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 Identify the apparatus mounted on the
roof of Electric Train ?

10-Oct-21 71
ANSWER

Pantograph

10-Oct-21 72
 Name the Indian
Railways Longest
Railway Bridge?
10-Oct-21 73
 ANSWER

Vembanad
Bridge

4.62 KMs
Built by RVNL in 2010 in Kerala state from
Edapally to Vallarpadam
10-Oct-21 74
 Name the World’s
first Hospital runs
on train ?
10-Oct-21 75
ANSWER

LIFE LINE /JEEVAN REKHA EXPRESS

(by Impact India foundation with
collaboration of Indian Railways and
Ministry of Health)

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 What is full form of CVV ?

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 ANSWER

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 What is full form of
SIM
used in Mobile Phones ?
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 ANSWER

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 What is full form of SLR

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 Answer

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 •NHSRCL is implementing the project of high speed train corridor between
Ahmedabad and Mumbai.

What is full form of NHSRCL ?

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 ANSWER

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First Train ran on Indian Soil
On April 16th, 1853, when a train with
14 railway carriages and 400 guests
left Bombay's BoriBunder for Thane.
The 3 Locomotives that hauled are
Sultan, Sindh and Sahib
Northernmost Railway Station ?
Northernmost Railway Station-Baramullah in J
&K

Southernmost Railway Station - Kanyakumari in

TN

Westernmost Railway Station - Naliya in

Gujarat

Easternmost Railway Station - Ledo, near

Shortest distance between stations
• Safilguda and Dayanand Nagar stations in
the Secunderabad, 170 meters apart.
 Which state government has
recently signed MoU with Indian
Railways to expand green
cover?
 Answer
• In a bid to expand the green cover, the Maharashtra
government recently signed the Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with the Railways, under
which trees will be planted on the land adjacent to
the railway tracks in the state.
 Question

What is the rank of

India in the world in
terms of length of
railroad network?
 Answer
First – USA
Second – China
Third – Russia
Fourth - India
 Question

First Railway Minister of

India ?
 Answer
• John Mathai - First Minister of Railways of
India (1947–1948)
 Question

Who is known as
father of Indian
Railways
Answer
Lord Dalhousie , Governor-
General of India. He is also said
to have convinced the British
to introduce the railways in
India through his famous
Railway minutes of 1853. Thus,
he is regarded as the father of
Indian railways and it is the right
option.
Question

First Railway
Station in
India
 Answer
• Victoria Terminus Railway Station (Now
renamed as Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus)