Write in brief.

Write the key features of Konkan Railway.

Konkan Railways was started in 1998 and has several records of technology to its credit. It stretches over four States (Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka & Kerala) over a distance of 760 km. It has 12 tunnels, 179 big and 1819 small bridges. India’s tallest bridge (64m tall) is on this line River Panval near Ratnagiri. It’s a landslide prone zone, thus to avoid accidents sensors are fitted to the railway engines to detect topographic causalities.