Feb 3 India's first electric train 🚈🚈🚈

3/2/22 feb
India's first electric train 
Deccan Queen India's first electric train.

Almost 91 years ago on 3 February, 1925, India inaugurated the services of its First electric train. The daily service started between Bombay VT and Kurla on the Harbour line. A 129 ft high Railway gantry was assembled to make this possible. At the time, the structure was touted to be the only such traction span anywhere in world.

The first electric train ran in India with the inauguration of services between Bombay VT and Kurla Harbour on 3rd Feb 1925 on ex-GIP Railway system. The section was electrified on 1500 Volt DC. Electric traction was subsequently extended on Central Railway upto Igatpuri on Northeast line and Pune on Southeast line where heavy gradients on the Western Ghats compelled introduction of electrictraction.

Production of Electric locomotives was simultaneously taken up indigenously at Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW) in 1960 and the first 1500 V DC electric locomotive for Bombay Area Lokmanya was flagged off on 14.10.1961 by Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India.


  
 

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