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G.I.P Railway’s first train ran on the Indian soil on one summer day of 16 April 1853. This has changed the history of India marking the dawn of the railway Age in Asia. It ran from Boree Bunder (now Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus) to Tannah (now Thane). The line was then extended from Thane to Kalyan after about a year. The line from Kalyan branched in to two directions like the North Eastern line that lead towards Igatpuri and Bhusaval. Of the 16 railway zones in India, Central Railway is one of the largest. The headquarters of Central Railway is in Mumbai at Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus.
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The railway line that branched in to North Eastern line leading towards Igatpuri and Bhusaval took 7 to 9 years to construct. For G.I.P the years between 1861 and 1870 were very important since during this period the fast growing industrial town of Mumbai was linked with Kolkata (then Calcutta), the imperial capital of India. During the same time, Mumbai (then Bombay) was linked with Chennai (then Madras) as also with Nagpur. The five divisions of Central Railway are Mumbai CST, Bhusaval, Nagpur, Solapur and Pune. The railway also covers a large part of the State of Maharashtra and parts of North Eastern Karnataka and Southern Madhya Pradesh.
The formation of Central Railway involves grouping of several government-owned railways that includes Great Indian Peninsula Railway, and the Scindia State Railway of the former princely state of Gwalior. Formerly the zones in Central Railway included Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh states and parts of southern Uttar Pradesh. This made Central Railway the largest railway zone in India. Central Railway is a network of 3832 route kilometres and 5818 track kilometres connecting 476 stations over 5 divisions spanning across the states of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, and Karnataka plays a key role in the progress of the nation as a carrier of passenger and freight traffic.
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