Rail trail

Locomotives in steam-6
Matheran Light Railway employed 0-6-0T engines manufactured by Orenstein and Koppel. Four such locos worked on this line till diesel took over. The stamp issued on April 16,1993,features the first such loco ML 738 manufactured in 1905. The original maker number was 1766. This loco survives even today in the Parel workshop of Western Railway. The other three locomotives are at the National Rail Museum (MLR 739),Matheran railway station (MLR 741)) and Leighton Buzzard Railway (MLR 740)

DID YOU KNOW?
1. The first fully air-conditioned train ran between Howrah and Delhi in 1956.

2. The first containerised freight train ran between Bombay and Ahmedabad in 1966.

3. The first Government (State) Railway was the Rajputana Railway.

4. The first Indian Railway train reserved exclusively for women ran in 1992 between Churchgate and Virar.

5. The first Jan Shatabdi Express ran between New Delhi and Jhansi in 1988.

6. The first Railway Budget was presented in 1925.
– VIKAS SINGH,RAIL ENTHUSIAST