Google celebrates 160 years of India's first passenger train journey with a doodle

On Tuesday, Google celebrated the 160th anniversary of India's first passenger train journey with a doodle on its India home page.

On 16th April 1853, the first passenger train service was started between Bori Bunder in Bombay at that time and Thane. Covering a distance of 34 kilometres in about 21 minutes, it was drawn by three locomotives, Sahib, Sindh, and Sultan.

India's first passenger train journey Google doodle shows a locomotive train which replaces the first 'O' of the word Google. The doodle also has a train, pulled by a steam engine, chugging along over a background dotted with palm trees and a structure in the distance.

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