India's First LNG-Powered Train Flagged Off at Sabarmati

The correct answer is Sabarmati. The first train in India to run on liquefied natural gas was sent on its way from Sabarmati Railway Station in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, by the Union Home and Cooperation Minister, who described the step as useful for protecting the environment. The same station also received a locomotive maintenance shed and the Kavach safety system on the section running to Kalol. Ahmedabad Junction is wrong because the works announced that day were grouped under the Sabarmati division and the flag-off itself took place at Sabarmati, not at the city's main junction. Vadodara is wrong: it was mentioned only as the destination of a trial run by a double-stack long-haul container train that began at the port in Mumbai. Gandhinagar Capital is wrong because no part of the day's announcements concerned that station; the doubling work taken up was on the line from Sabarmati to Sarkhej.

The correct answer is Rs 1,472 crore, the combined worth of the works opened and the foundation stones laid at Sabarmati on the day the first LNG-powered train was flagged off. Option A, Rs 700 crore, is only one part of that package: it is what the WAG-12 shed for maintaining locomotive engines cost. Option C, Rs 589 crore, is a very different figure, the total railway spending in Gujarat across the years from 2009 to 2014, quoted to contrast past and present outlays. Option D, Rs 17,366 crore, is the railway outlay for Gujarat in a single year, 2026-27, again used for that comparison and not the value of the Sabarmati works. Only option B answers what was asked, so B is right.

The correct answer is 12,000 horsepower. The engine put into service at Sabarmati is a twin-section machine of that rating, and it can pull on its own a load that would otherwise need roughly 600 trucks. Two locomotives used to be joined together for such a haul, so one WAG-12 now does the work of a pair, which the Home Minister called a landmark for Indian Railways. Options A and B, 6,000 and 9,000 horsepower, are lower ratings that do not match the machine described at the ceremony. Option D, 15,000 horsepower, is higher than the stated figure. A shed costing Rs 700 crore was opened at the same station precisely to maintain locomotive engines of this class, which is why the number is worth remembering with the shed.

The correct answer is 108 crore litres. The Home Minister said the railways burnt 293 crore litres of diesel in 2015-16 and that the quantity had come down to 108 crore litres by 2024-25, a fall he linked to the spread of electric traction and one he felt received little notice. Option A, 293 crore litres, is the earlier of the two figures, for 2015-16, so it names the starting point rather than the later year. Options B and C, 205 and 150 crore litres, are neither of the two quantities quoted. The same speech put the share of the network already electrified at 99.6 per cent, with the small remainder to be finished soon, which explains why diesel use has shrunk so sharply.