As we all know that Google always pays tribute on the special occasions ,if you are thinking what does today's doodle is all about then have a look over here..
Today is the 160th anniversary when India's first passenger train was launched. Exactly 160 years ago, on April 16 1853, the first passenger train in our country left Bori Bunder station in Bombay to complete a 34km journey to Thane. Quite fittingly, the Google doodle depicts a steam locomotive lugging a passenger train on a palm-lined railway track. The 14 carriage passenger train with 400 invited guests onboard was pulled by three locomotives named Sultan, Sindh and Sahib and took 57 minutes to complete the journey.
The doodle has a train, pulled by a steam engine, chugging along over a background dotted with palm trees and astructure in the distance.
India’s railway network since then has grown by leaps and bounds and has one of the world’s largest railway networks comprising of nearly 115,000kms of tracks over a route of 65,000kms and 7,500 stations.
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