Indian Transport System - MCQs with answers - Part V

ANSWER: a) 1853

On 16 April 1853 was the first train journey in India between Bombay and Thane in a 14 carriage long train drawn by 3 locomotives named Sultan, Sindh and Sahib.

ANSWER: a) 1854

The first train of the East Indian Railway ran from Howrah to Hooghly on 15 August 1854.

ANSWER: a) 1856

The Madras Railway Company commenced its operations with the opening of the Royapuram-Wallajah Road in 1856.

ANSWER: d) Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh has the longest route of railway lines followed by Rajasthan, Maharashtra, and Gujarat.

ANSWER: b) South East Central

Railway zone with the highest earning is South East Central followed by Northern, South Eastern and Western.

ANSWER: b) 1925

In 1925, the first two sections from Victoria Terminus to Kurla and from Victoria Terminus to Bandra were electrified.

ANSWER: a) Expressways

The Nagpur Plan of 1943 planned four classes of roads. They are national highways which would pass through states, state highways which would be the other main roads of a state, district roads which would take traffic from the main roads to the interior of the district, and village roads which would link the villages to the road system.

ANSWER: d) Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh has the longest national highway road followed by Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.

ANSWER: b) Maharashtra

Maharashtra has the longest surfaced road followed by Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.

ANSWER: c) NH-7

NH-7 is renamed as NH-44. The NH-44 crosses 6 Indian states and connects major Indian cities like Varanasi, Nagpur, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Madurai.