From 16th April 1853, when the first passenger train ran between Bori Bunder (Bombay) and Thane in India, to now when India has the fourth largest railway network in the world, and has a Guinness.
Delhi's Sarai Rohilla (DEE) railway station, the first station in Delhi to run lines towards Ahmedabad via Alwar and Jaipur on the Rajputana-Malwa Railway in olden times, was established in 1872, even before the construction of New Delhi.For .