MCQ
Q.
______ was the headquarters of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway?
Correct Answer: A
The correct answer is Bori Bunder.
Key Points
- The Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIPR) was a predecessor of the Central Railway whose headquarters was at the Bori Bunder in Bombay (later, the Victoria Terminus and presently the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus).
- The Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company was incorporated on 1 August 1849 by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company Act 1849 of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
- On 21 August 1847, it entered into a formal contract with the East India Company for the construction and operation of a railway line, 56 km long, to form part of a trunk line connecting Bombay with Khandesh and Berar and generally with the other presidencies of India.
- On 1 July 1925 its management was taken over by the Government.
- On 5 November 1951, it was incorporated into the Central Railway.
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