indian railways has the most number of workers in railway department.
which country has the most number of workers in railway department?
indian railways
the need for a new service was reinforced by yet another recommendation of the acworth committee which was with regard to the railway department having its own accounting staff and being responsible for its accounts, subject to an independent audit by the auditor general of india.





















































with the post of financial commissioner firmly in place, the requirement for an organisational set up with staff became imminent, and the ground was clearly laid for the growth of a new service which would henceforth meet the burgeoning needs of the increasingly autonomous finance department of indian railways.
indian railway accounts service
the first section, in length 13 miles 75 chains 19 links was opened for public traffic on 3 may 1897. at that time the entire rolling stock available for use comprised one 11 inch cylinder locomotive, built at the baldwin locomotive works in philadelphia, u.s.a., in 1879(purchased from the railway department, cairns, for the sum of £700), and five second-hand ballast waggons, purchased at gladstone from the railway contractors messrs. james overend & co for the sum of £125. subsequently ten "f" waggons, five "h" waggons, and two timber waggons were built for the board by the toowoomba foundry company. a tramcar with seating accommodation for sixty passengers, which had been previously in use on the government lines, was purchased from the railway department, in brisbane, for £100. with the assistance of a guard's van and a convertible car, the latter was exclusively for indigenous passengers — hired from the railway department, together with other passenger and goods stock hired from the department as occasion demanded, the board was enabled to cope with the rapidly increasing traffic in the first year in a fairly satisfactory manner. the total cost of the board's rolling-stock in uee to 30 june 1898, was £2879 8s. 8d., equal to £206 11s. per mile open.
cairns-mulgrave tramway