1.Who told this regarding railways' contribution for Indian people : ".... railways propagate evil.....Good travels at a snail’s pace – it can, therefore have little to do with the railways".

Babu Bholanath Sen.
Keshab Chandra Sen
M.K.Gandhi
Rabindranath Tagore

2. The first railway's own power plant  was set up in 1895, with a non condensing reciprocating steam engine to drive 220 volt DC dynamos. Where was this ?

Matunga Workshop
Jamalpur Workshop
Kharagpur Workshop
Parel Workshop

3. The first train in India was steamed off from Bori Bunder to Thane on 16th. April,1853 with great pomp and ceremony. Who presided the function ?

Lord Curzon
Lord Falkland(Governor of Bombay Presidency)
Jamshetji Jeejibhoy
Lady Falkland

4. Which Train in pre-independence days was known as Viceroy's train ?

Kalka-Simla toy train
Kalka Mail
Darjeeling toy train
Matheran toy train

5. Which was the first Narrow Gauge (2' 6") railway in India

Kalka Simla Railway
Baroda State Railway
Darjeeling Himalayan Railway
Rajputana Malwa Light Railway

6. Colour light Signal was first introduced in India in

East Indian Railway
Madras & Southern Marhatta Railway
Great Indian Peninsula Railway
Bengal Nagpur Railway

7. Air Cooled Coaches with Ice Boxes were introduced long back in all prestigious trains in India, but first AC coach was manufactured & introduced in 1936. Where was this  manufactured and in which Railway ?

Liluah in EIR
Matunga in GIPR
Parel in BBCIR
Golden Rock in SIR

8. Vacuum  brake was introduced in IR in which year ?

1865
1879
1895
1905

9. Hundreds of books have written regarding Indian Railways through out the world by various researchers. But the first book written on Indian Railways by an Indian named Kalidas Moitra of Srirampur ( Steam Machine- Indian Railroad Vaspiya Kal - Bharatvarshiya Railpath ) in which year.

1854
1855
1895
1900

10. Electric Fans were fitted in all third class coaches in 1953. Who was behind this humane approach ?  

J.L.Nehru
Jagjivan Ram
Lal Bahadur Shastri
V.V.Giri