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The Indian Railways website says: "India has some of the most spectacular and unforgettable rail journeys in the world … .There's no better way to enjoy India's outback, cities, coastal towns and regional areas in comfort."

Indian Railways is more than 150 years old and has played a vital role in the socio-economic development of the country. Today, the Railways is one of the largest rail networks in the world, transporting around 23 million passengers every day and employing 1.4 million people.

India's decrepit state-run train services stand to receive at least a 25 per cent boost in investment to over $9 billion.

'The government must understand that the Indian Railways is like a Kamdhenu cow. It can look after your GDP, it can look after the health of the nation. But the Kamdhenu cow also needs nourishment.'

Indian Railways is more than 150 years old and has played a vital role in the socio-economic development of the country. Today, the Railways is one of the largest rail networks in the world, transporting around 23 million passengers every day and employing 1.4 million people.

Railways must pull back its share of freight traffic.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated the Koderma-Hazaribagh Railway Line, and announced that the government is working towards the modernisation of the Indian Railways and improving its service delivery.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the Government was working towards modernization and improved service delivery in the Indian Railways.

One could take pride in Indian Railways' being one of the largest commercial organisations under governmental control anywhere in the world, with its 1.3 million strong work-force carrying nearly 23 million passengers daily and lifting more than one billion tonnes of originating freight traffic in a year.

The mammoth task of achieving 1 billion tonne coal production by 2020 has set the ball rolling on the reforms in state mining giant Coal India Limited (CIL). In the roadmap for the next five years, the company has earmarked targets for all its subsidiaries, joint venture with Indian Railways for better evacuation and technology upgradation to improve its efficiency.

Hazaribagh (Jharkhand), Feb. 20 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated the Koderma-Hazaribagh Railway Line, and announced that the government is working towards the modernisation of the Indian Railways and improving its service delivery. Dedicating the railway line to the nation by flagging off a Diesel-Electric Multiple Unit (DEMU) train from Hazaribagh railway station, Prime ...

The Indian Railways Wednesday reported an increase of 4.64 percent in freight carried during April-January, 2015.

New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Indian Railways Thursday said it will launch AC double-decker train service between New Delhi and Lucknow shortly. "We have got the clearance from commissioner railway safety (CRS) for the double-decker train for Lucknow," Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu said on the sidelines of a function here. The launch date of the new train service was not disclosed.

New Delhi, Feb 19: At a time when Narendra Modi government is brainstorming over ways to make Indian Railways world class, but standards of the basic amenities and hygiene in the state-owned carrier has barely improved. In a shocking report,

A Venkateshwar, an Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS) officer of 1979 batch, has bagged the coveted 'Distinguished Alumnus Award' of the National Academy of Indian Railways, Ministry of Railways, Vadodara for the year 2014.

New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) The Indian Railways Wednesday reported an increase of 4.64 percent in freight carried during April-January, 2015. During last month, the revenue earning freight traffic carried by Indian Railways increased by 13.96 percent and stood at Rs.10,023.71 crore from Rs.8,795.90 crore earned during the same period last year.

A resident of Scotland visited the South Central Railway (SCR) headquarters here in search of his ancestral roots.

As many as 75 delegates representing various zonal railways and production units of the Indian Railways are expected to participate in the Executive Committee Meeting of the Indian Railway Promotee...

Kalyani group-owned industrial component maker Bharat Forge Ltd. (BFL) Monday said it has inaugurated a locomotive manufacturing facility in Baramati, Maharashtra, becoming the first indigenous company to make crankshafts for the Indian Railways.

Bharat Forge, which recently began supplying indigenously developed locomotive crankshafts for the Indian Railways, hopes to expand the business and also begin making components like turbo-chargers, parallel pistons and connecting rods among others for the rail industry.