India's First Passenger Train Journey’S 150 Years..

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[size=5][color=#333333]On 16th April 1853, the first passenger train service was inaugurated between Bori Bunder in Bombay and Thane. Covering a distance of 34 kilometres (21 mi), The train; pulled by three locomotives - Sindh, Sultan, and Sahib; was greeted by a 21 gun salute when it was pulling out of the platform..[/color][/size]

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[size=5][color=#333333]On 16th April 1853, the first passenger train service was inaugurated between Bori Bunder in Bombay and Thane. Covering a distance of 34 kilometres (21 mi), The train; pulled by three locomotives - Sindh, Sultan, and Sahib; was greeted by a 21 gun salute when it was pulling out of the platform..[/color][/size]
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On April 16, 1853, that is exactly 160 years ago, India's first passenger train chugged out of Bori Bunder, in Bombay (now Mumbai), for its destination 34 kilometres away, Thane.[/size][/font][/color][color=#3C3D3D][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=4]
Google is commemorating that momentous event with a celebratory doodle on its India home page. The India's first passenger train journey shows a steam locomotive pulling a passenger train on a palm-lined railway track.[/size][/font][/color][color=#3C3D3D][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=4]
In the first railway passenger journey in India three steam locomotives, Sultan, Sindh and Sahib, took 400 invited passengers in 14 carriages on a 57 minute journey that had one halt.[/size][/font][/color]

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[color=#000000][font=Georgia,]Google doodle marks India's first passenger train journey's 160th anniversary[/font]
[font=Georgia,]NDTV Correspondent, April 16, 2013[/font]

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India's first passenger train journey is the subject of Tuesday's Google doodle. The day marks 160 years since the a passenger train set out on its maiden journey in India.

The history of rail transport in India goes all the way back to 1832, when a plan for a rail system in India was first put forward. The first rail line in the Indian sub-continent came up near Chintadripet Bridge (in modern-day Chennai) in 1836 as an "experimental line". In 1837, a 5.6 km long rail line was established between Red Hills and the stone quarries near St. Thomas Mount.

However, it wasn't until 1853-54, when two new railway companies, Great Indian Peninsular Railway (GIPR) and East Indian Railway (EIR), were created, that the railways as we known it today began to take shape. GIPR was asked to setup near Mumbai, and EIR was to setup a railway line near Kolkata (Calcutta at the time). Thus, the first train in India became operational on 22 December 1851 for localised hauling of canal construction material in Roorkee.

16 April 1853 was the historic date when India's first passenger train journey took place between Bori Bunder in Mumbai and Thane. Covering a distance of 34 kilometres, it was hauled by three locomotives, Sahib, Sindh, and Sultan.

The Google doodle celebrates the 160th anniversary of this journey - rather inaccurately some might [/size][/font][/color][/color]
[color=#4E4E4E][font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif][size=4]say - by depicting a single steam engine lugging a train towards the reader. The front part of the engine form the first 'O' in Google.[/size][/font][/color]

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nice.. the quality of service never changed and never will.

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