Indian Railways

Indian Railways is a state-owned enterprise, organised as a departmental undertaking of the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India, and it operates the national railway system of India. As of 2024 it managed the fourth largest national railway system by size, with a track length of 135,207 km, and it had more than 1.2 million employees, making it the ninth-largest employer in the world. It was established in 1951 by the amalgamation of 42 different railway companies, and its network was reorganized into regional zones for administrative purposes. It is recorded here as the operator named on the infoboxes of the Rajdhani Express and the Shatabdi Express.