The three locomotives covered 34 km scripting history on the day that the Indian Railways celebrates its anniversary. “Today, 167 years ago with the zeal of ‘never to stop’, the wheels of the first passenger train from Mumbai to Thane started rolling. For the first time, passenger services are stopped for your safety stay indoor and make the nation victorious,” the ministry of railways tweeted. The mammoth rail network of India that runs nearly 14, 000 passenger trains ferrying 23 million passengers daily is not celebrating its ‘rail day’ as it would, perhaps, the first time in its history. This is the same rail network that is there in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar.

Source: Hindustan Times April 16, 2020 16:46 UTC