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Social Studies Fun

Did you know that the Indian Railways has the fourth-largest network and is the
seventh-largest employer in the world? It runs nearly 11,000 trains every day.

Fun Fact: Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta on the Arakkonam–Renigunta section
near Chennai is the station with the longest name. Ib, near Jharsuguda in Odisha,
and Od, near Anand in Gujarat, both have the shortest names.

A Note to Parent

This poem is about travel by train. India has a lot of trains and a vast train route network.
Some trains are faster and better than the others. The following link gives information
about luxury tourist trains as well as high-speed tourist trains. Read this with your child
and discuss all that he or she does not understand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxury_rail_in_India

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