Longest Platform: Indian Railways owns the longest railway platform in the world at Kharagpur (West Bengal) with a length of 2,733 ft (1072.5 m) in length.
First Railroad: The first railroad was constructed by two Indians (Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy and Jaganath Shunkerseth) and not the British.
Railway Network: Though it is commonly believed, India doesn't have the largest railway network in the World. India comes fourth with approx. 64,000 km of railroad after US, Russia, and China.
If the tracks were to be laid out from one point to another around the equator, it would circle it one-and-a-half times.
