The first railway proposals, of India was made in madras, in 1832, so old in history, railways line india , was named redhill, rail road, and was built by Arthur cotton, to transport granite for road building, it ran from redhill in Chennai, to the Chintadripet, bridge in madras and was opened on 12 September, 1837

Lord Dalhousie come to india, in 1848, to serve as governor general of India, he introduced railways in india, and the railway line from Mumbai to thane was opened in 1853, the first full scale, working railway steam locomotive, built in the United Kingdom in 1804 by Richard Trevithick, a British engineer , the oldest railway station in india is the chatrapati Shivaji Mahraj terminus, Mumbai which first opened in 1853

The fastest train in India is the Vande bharat express, popularly known as train 18, the sealdah railway station in Kolkata West Bengal, is the 2nd largest railway station in india