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Indian Railways

state-owned enterprise operating India's national railway system
Organization national_railway Q819425
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Key Facts

  • Member of: International Union of Railways[1]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: New Delhi[2]
  • Country: India[3]
  • Instance of: railway company[4]
  • Item operated: indianrail.gov.in[5]
  • Owned by: India[6]
  • Headquarters location: New Delhi[7]
  • Industry: rail transport[8]
  • Inception: May 8, 1845[9]
  • Location of formation: India[10]
  • Parent organization or unit: Government of India[11]
  • Official website: https://indianrailways.gov.in/[12]
  • Track gauge: 1676 mm track gauge[13], two-foot gauge[14], 762 mm track gauge[15], 1000 mm track gauge[16]
  • Employees: 1,230,000[17]
  • Legal form: state-owned enterprise[18]
  • Reporting mark: IR[19]
  • Main Wikidata property: P5696[20]
  • Short name: IR[21]
  • Owner of: Sangaldan railway station[22], Kakinada Town railway station[23], Patas railway station[24], Nauganwan railway station[25], Oro Jagadishpur railway station[26], Visakhapatnam Junction railway station[27], Ghaziabad railway station[28], Kashinagar Halt railway station[29], Khanapur railway station[30], Nagari railway station[31], Ramnagar railway station[32], Wikidata item[33], Wikidata item[34], Zarpur Pali railway station[35]

Related Entities

India Indian locomotive class YAM-1 P. T. Usha

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  8. [1] ↑ . vademecum.uic.org. Retrieved . vademecum.uic.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . irfca.org. irfca.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  11. [11] ↑ . ror.org. Retrieved . ror.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  14. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  17. [17] ↑ . indianrailways.gov.in. indianrailways.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  21. [21] ↑ . ror.org. Retrieved . ror.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · Magentic Manifestations · 2026-10-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → https://indianrailways.gov.in/
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Official website: https://indianrail.gov.in"
  2. 3d ago · Magentic Manifestations · 2026-10-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'as', 'bg', 'bh', 'bn', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', '
    Sitelink count → 50
    Official website → https://indianrailways.gov.in/
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Official website: https://indianrailways.gov.in/"
  3. 7w ago · Bouzinac · 2026-09-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Owner of → Sangaldan railway station, Kakinada Town railway station, Patas railway station +64
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Owner of: Nilgiri Mountain Railway, using [[User:Frettie/consistency check add.js]]"
  4. 7w ago · Bouzinac · 2026-09-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Owner of → Sangaldan railway station, Kakinada Town railway station, Patas railway station +64
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Owner of: Sheikpura railway station, using [[User:Frettie/consistency check add.js]]"
  5. 18w ago · Printstream · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Track gauge → 1676 mm track gauge, two-foot gauge, 762 mm track gauge +1
    P14536 → 395572
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14536: 395572, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1782462304762"
  6. 18w ago · Sbb1413 · 2026-06-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → https://indianrailways.gov.in/
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Official website: https://भारतीयरेल.सरकार.भारत"
  7. 24w ago · Sbb1413 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → +1845-05-08T00:00:00Z
    Owned by → India
    Industry → rail transport
    Aliases → —
    + 24 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|2 */ Official website: https://indianrailways.gov.in"
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