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g Manali-Leh highway in the Himalayan g Factors responsible for the construction of
mountains is one of the highest roadways in railway lines are— relief features, climatic
the world. conditions, density of Population and

Railways availability of resources.
g Railways is the fastest and the cheapest g Railway network is more developed in the
means of land transportation. plains than in the mountains.
g Diesel and electric engines have largely g Indian railway network is well-developed. It
replaced the steam engines. is the largest in Asia.

g Electric engines are fast and eco-friendly WATERWAYS
and don’t cause pollution. Waterways are the oldest and the cheapest
means of transportation
to carry heavy and
bulky goods from one
country to another

Jammu (Tawi)
Waterways are mainly
Pathankot
Jogindarnagar of two types – inland
Amritsar Jalandhar
Shimla
Firozpur
Ludhiana Chandigarh waterways and sea
Ambala Dehra Dun
Hanumangarh routes.
Rohtak Meerut
Moradabad Inland Waterways
Rewari DELHI
Bareilly Dibrugarh
Bikaner
Ringas Sitapur Navigable rivers and
Alwar Jorhat
Jaisalmer Agra Raxaul Darjiling Tezpur Naginimara
Jodhpur JAIPUR GORAKHPUR Dispur
Lucknow lakes are used as inland
Munaba Ajmer Kanpur Dimapur
Samdari Marwar Gwalior HAJIPUR MALIGAON Lumding
ALLAHABAD
Kota Jhansi Varanasi waterways. Some of the
Patna
Mughal Sarai Karimganj
Gaya
Palanpur important inland
Bina
Katni
Gandhinagar Asansol
Gandhidham Bhopal waterways are the
Godhra JABALPUR Ranchi
Okba Indore Haora KOLKATA
Rajko Vadodara Itarsi
Kharagpur Ganga-Brahmaputra
Khandwa BILASPUR
Veraval Surat Sambalpur New Moore I river system, the Great
Akola Nagpur Raipur Talcher (India)
Manmad Cuttack
BHUBANESHWAR Lakes in North America
Titilagarh Khordha Road
MUMBAI, C.S.T. Balharshah
Puri B A Y
MUMBAI,
CHURCHGATE Parbhani O F and the river Nile in
BELAPUR, NAVI MUMBAI Daund
A R A B I A N Pune Kirandul B E N G A L
Solapur Africa.
S E A Warangal Vizianagaram
SECUNDERABAD
Visakhapatnam
Miraj Hyderabad
Wadi Sea Routes
Vijayawada
Kolhapur
Raichur Guntur
Londa Repalle
Marmagao Harbour Sea or oceanic routes
REFERENCES
HUBBALI Ballari
Guntakal Central Railway North Western Railway
Dharmavaram Eastern Railway Souther Railway are mostly used for
Gudur
Talguppa
East Central Railway South Central Railway
CHENNAI transporting merchan-
Arsikere Bengaluru City CENTRAL East Coast Railway South Eastern Railway
Mangaluru
Konkan Railway South East Central Railway A N D M A N
Mysuru Jolarpettai Norther Railway South Eastern Railway dise and goods from
Kannur North Central Railway Western Railway
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Puducherry North Eastern Railway West Central Railway
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Coimbatore Salem North East Frontier Railway Zonal Headquarters A N D one country to another.
K
S
Palakkad Note: The zonal headquarters of South Eastern and Eastern railway zones is at Kolkata.
Tiruchchirapalli ( I N D I A )
The zonal headquarters of Konkan railway is in Belapur, Navi Mumbai. These routes are con-
H
Ernakulam
A
Madurai N I C O B A R
(INDIA)
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nected with the ports.
Rameswaram
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Tuticorin
E
Thiruvananthapuram Some of the important
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Kanniyakumari I S L A N D S
ports of the world are
I N D I A N O C E A N Singapore and Mumbai
Indian Railways in Asia, New York, Los
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