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1857 – Steel rails first used in Britain. 1857 – The first railway in Argentina, built by Ferrocarril del Oeste between Buenos Aires and Flores, a distance of 10 km, opened to the public on 30 August. 1858 – The first railway line in Ottoman Empire (Turkiye) opens between Izmir-Aydin.
16-09-1991 Inauguration of MRTS project between Madras Beach - Park Town. 01-11-1992 Introduction of first Rajdhani Express in Southern Railway between Bengaluru - Nizamuddin. 20-11-1992 Inauguration of Alappuzha - Kayamkulam BG line. 00-03-1992 Electrification of Jolarpettai - Bangalore section.
Madurai–Virudhunagar–Tirunelveli Line. The Madurai–Virudhunagar–Tirunelveli Line is a railway line connecting the cities of Madurai, Virudhunagar and Tirunelveli in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. The line was inaugurated on 1 January 1876. [1] This railway is under control of Southern Railways. It covers 157.1 km.
The language has a distinct grammatical structure, with agglutinative morphology that allows for complex word formations. Tamil is predominantly spoken in Tamil Nadu, India, and the Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka. It has significant speaking populations in Malaysia, Singapore, and among diaspora communities.
The Nilgiri Mountain Railway (NMR), colloquially called the "Toy Train" by locals is a 1,000 mm (3 ft in) metre gauge railway in Nilgiris district, Tamil Nadu, India, built by the British in 1908. [1] The railway is operated by the Southern Railway [2] and is the only rack railway in India. The railway relies on its fleet of steam locomotives. [3]
Under him, the language used in administrative documents became less persianised. Whereas in 1630, 80% of the vocabulary was Persian, it dropped to 37% by 1677 [9] The British colonial period starting in early 1800s saw standardisation of Marathi grammar through the efforts of the Christian missionary William Carey.
The line has a number of Industrial establishments [10] which utilises their nearby railway stations for their logistics and transports such as Central Workshop (Golden Rock), Cement and gypsum factories at Trichy, Perambalur and Ariyalur, [11] [12] [13] and the Sugar factories at Villupuram and Vridhachalam, [14]
The museum which is a part of the erstwhile South Indian Railway’s sesquicentennial celebrations, and has both indoor and outdoor exhibits. Some of the indoor exhibits include old documents and digital archives (rare photographs, maps, gazettes, railway manuals and books used during the British Raj) and epoch artifacts (old lamps used at stations made up of "China glass", clocks, bells ...