World's First Railway: Fast Facts

• The St.E.G factory manufactured the first railway engine which was known as Resita 2 in the year 1872. This engine has the measurement of 948 mm at that time. It was developed by john haswell who was the manager of the railway engine at the factory of St.E.G in Vienna and was used for the internal purpose of transport in the factory premises itself.

  

• St.E.G factories in Resita developed which includes 16 cranes taken a tour on the rail track, 18 water loom reservoir, 110 covers for the arrival of the railway engines, 514 knob double crossing frogs, and 793 cushions for the European railways in the year 1872.

• In the year 1891 at Transylvania, the factory was established as the first factory for making of steam engines for the normal measurement.

• In the year 1896 under a project sequence of MAV 377 of the factory of engines at budapest, the first steam engines sequence of 377, was developed for the passenger use and cargo trains on the inferior tracks.

• In the period of 1896 to 1922, all the railway engines approximately 125 which were made in arad were devastated during the wars and not any of them is there today.

• " From the year 1920, the factory has been only specialized in wagons making and the factory is known as The Wagons' Astra-Arad Factory now.

India's First Train: Fast Facts

• Two new railway companies, Great Indian Peninsular Railway (GIPR) and East Indian Railway (EIR), were created in 1853-54 to construct and operate two 'experimental' lines near Bombay and Calcutta respectively.

• The first train in India had become operational on 22 December 1851 for localised hauling of canal construction material in Roorkee.

• A year and a half later, on 16 April 1853, the first passenger train service was inaugurated between Bori Bunder in Bombay and Thane. Covering a distance of 34 kilometres (21 mi), it was hauled by three locomotives, Sahib, Sindh, and Sultan.