1. India’s first passenger train ran on 16 April 1853 between Bombay and Thane, covering about 34 to 35 kilometres, with 14 carriages, around 400 passengers, and locomotive Falkland.
2. By 1880, the railway system had expanded to about 9,000 miles, nearly 14,500 kilometres, showing rapid network growth during the steam era across much of India by then.
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