The Indian Railways is one of the largest rail networks in the world! It is also one of the largest employers in the world. Here is a timeline that gives you a brief history of the evolution of the Indian Railways. All data, unless specified otherwise, is from Wikipedia. In places where only the year and not the specific date was known, the timeline resolves it to the first day of the year.
Timeline of the Indian Railways
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