write 1000 words about railway
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Railways were introduced in India in 1853 primarily to serve the interests of the British government. Today the railways in India provide the principal mode of transport for freight and passengers. Indian railways have been a great integrating force during the last hundred years by bringing people and their goods together. It has bound the economic life of the country and helped in accelerating the development of industry and agriculture.
there are three types of gauge :
(i) Broad Gauge: This gauge has 1,676 m distance between the two lines. More than 70 per cent track of Indian railways is broad gauge.
(ii) Metre Gauge: The distance between two rails is one metre. About 24 per centof Indian railway is metregauge.
(iii) Narrow Gauge: This is of two types. One is 0.762 metre and the other is 0.610 metre broad. It is confined to hilly areas only.Indian Railways have made impressive progress in indigenous production of rolling stock and variety of other equipment over the years and is now self- sufficient in most of the items. Since the inception of the planned era in 1950-51, Indian Railways have implemented nine five-year plans, apart from annual plans in some years. During the Plans, emphasis was laid on a comprehensive programme of system modernisation.
With capacity being stretched to the full, investments of cost-effective technological changes have become inescapable in order to meet the ever-increasing demand for rail transport. Along with the major thrust directed towards rehabilitation of assets, technological changes and up gradation of standards were initiated in important areas of track locomotives, passenger coaches, wagon bogie designs, signalling and telecommunication.
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Railway is the one of the most important to our life because the way which we move one place.to another place that is also use for farmers to move there goods
Train can carry 25000 tons of weight that can also do the work which done by milloin of people