The first Indian Railways passenger train was flagged off on April 16, 1853, from Mumbai to nearby Thane. The 14-carriage train was flagged off with a 21-gun salute, which was hauled by three ...
1853. On this day that year, India’s first passenger train of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway took off from Bori Bunder station in Bombay to Tanna suburbs. Few would identify the line with ...