Indian Railway for Windows 8

Indian Railways is an Indian state-owned enterprise, owned and operated by the Government of India through the Ministry of Railways.

It is one of the world's largest railway networks comprising 115,000 km (71,000 mi) of track over a route of 65,000 km (40,000 mi) and 7,500 stations. As of December 2012, it transported over 25 million passengers daily (over 9 billion on an annual basis). Railways were first introduced to India in 1853 from Bombay to Thane. In 1951 the systems were nationalised as one unit, the Indian Railways, becoming one of the largest networks in the world. Indian Railways is the world's ninth largest commercial or utility employer, by number of employees, with over 1.4 million employees