On 16 April 1853, The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opened the first passenger rail in India, from Bori Bunder to Thane. It had 14 bogies and 400 people traveled. This is the First train of Asia also. It was operated by three locomotives, named Sahib, Sultan and Sindh.
The first passenger train in India ran between Bombay (Bori Bunder) and Thane on 16 April 1853. The 14-carriage train was hauled by three steam locomotives – Sahib, Sindh and Sultan; it carried 400 people and ran on a line of 34 kilometres (21 mi) built and operated by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. This line was built in 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad gauge, which became the standard for railways in the country. In May 1854, the Bombay–Thane line was extended to Kalyan by India's first railway bridges, the Thane viaducts, over Thane Creek.
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