First Passenger Carrying Train Between Silchar – Guwahati

\The Union Minister of Railways, Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu, flagged off the First BG Fast Passenger Train from Silchar to Guwahati via Lumding.
Advantage- This will fulfill the long cherished demand of the people of Barak Valley to have a seamless connectivity but would also lead to opening of new vistas in connection to the hitherto isolated states of Tripura, Mizoram and Manipur..  
Earlier Project connecting East with national capital: Earlier this year Itanagar, the State Capital of Arunachal Pradesh was provided connectivity with the National Capital through a direct train.
Some advantages of this connectivety are : will provide better marketing facilities. Railways have been playing a major role in serving the infrastructural needs of the Northeast and will continue to contribute to the socio-economical development of this region.
Some facts about Indian Railway 
- First train was  from Mumbai to Thane.
- Indian Railways is the largest rail network in Asia and the world’s second largest. 
- Indian Railways is ranks 7^th according to economic magizine in  employers.
- The Fairy Queen train, that runs between New Delhi and Rajasthan, is the oldest working steam locomotive in the world.
-  The under-construction Chenab railway bridge, in Reasi district, J&K, is expected to be one of the highest rail bridges in the world, when completed.
- The slowest train in India is the Metupalayam Ooty Nilgiri passenger train.
- 'Ib' in Odisha is the shortest name of a railway station In India.
- Red Ribbon Express is an AIDS/HIV awareness campaign train by the Indian Railways, launched in India on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2007.