The Indian Railways will complete 171 on Tuesday. The first train in Asia, and India ran between Mumbai and Thane on April 16, 1853. It was flagged off from Boribunder-the place where Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) presently stands. The Central Railway issued a press statement describing the glorious journey of the Indian Railways. 

The Great Indian Peninsula Railway, which ran the first train, merged with the Indian Midland Railway Company in 1900 and extended its frontiers from Delhi in the North to Kanpur and Allahabad in the North-east and Nagpur in the East to Raichur in the South-east.