NEW DELHI: Google is celebrating 160th anniversary of India’s first passenger train journey with a doodle on India’s home page.
On 16th April 1853, the first passenger train service was started between Bori Bunder in Bombay and Thane. Covering a distance of 34 kilometres (21 minutes), it was hauled by three locomotives, Sahib, Sindh, and Sultan.
However, this was not the first train running in India. Railway lines for hauling materials had been laid as early as 1835. Most of the earliest railways were pulled by horses or men.
The first steam locomotive in the country was Thomason, commissioned in 1851 for hauling construction material in Roorkee for the Solani viaduct. It had a short life though, and was decommissioned after a boiler explosion within nine months.
The Indian government, in 1953, released a stamp to mark the hundred year anniversary of the event.
The India’s first passenger train journey Google doodle shows a locomotive train which replaces the first ‘O’ of the word Google.
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