India boasts the longest railway platform in the world, 2,733 feet [833 m], at Kharagpur in West Bengal, and the longest covered platforms, at 1,000 feet each, at Sealdah in Calcutta.
१८६२ साली जगातील सर्वात पहिली दुमजली ट्रेन निर्माण करण्यात आली.