18 indiaIndia's railroad history began in 1837 when The Red Hill Railway used the country's first steam powered locomotive to carry stone for road work to Madras, modern day Chennai. In 1845, India's first railway was incorporated, the Madras Railway. Sixteen years later, on a warm April day in 1853, a 14 carriage train carrying 400 passengers was hauled 21 miles by three steam locomotives the Sahib, Sindh, and Sultan and passenger railway service was thus