In 1844, the East India Company was asked to assist two railway companies to set up a railway system in India. On 22 December 1851, the first train in India became operational. It was a freight train that carried clay to build the Ganga canal and the journey was from Roorkee, now in Uttarakhand, to Piran Kaliyar, about 10km away.
About a year and a half later, the first passenger train service would be inaugurated Bori Bunder station in Bombay to Tannah (now Thane).
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