Railway transportation, railway engineering, Advantage of railway engineering

#Railway transportation :- The transportation of men and material with the help of railway is known  as railway transportation .Railway tracks are made for providing facilities of transportation .

#Characteristic of Transportation  modes :- The transportation modes provide following two basic utilities

1. Place utilities :- In having men and materials at place where they are wanted and 
2. Time utilities :- In having men and materials when they are wanted the suitability of transportation modes depended largely upon its intrinsic-merits and characteristics and can be surmised as 

• Railway :- The railway have their greatest utilization in the transport of large volume of heavy and bulk commodities over long distance and in very long distance journey of passenger with safety ,comfort,and convince
• Road transportation:- have  provide great utility in transportation over short and long houls of lighter weight commodities over long distance and in very long distance journey of passenger with safety and comfort and non convince 
• Air transport:- Maximum utilities in airpot where saving of time in transport rather than the many Aircraft transportation industry will thus have the objective os transportation the products 

#railway engineering :- it is the branch of engineering which deals with the design of construction and maintenance of railway track is prefers as railway engineering

#Advantage of railway engineering :-following are the advantage of railway 

• railway have united the people of different caste ,religion ,custom and tradition , thus strengthen national unity .
• railway help in the mass migration of the population 
• railway provides a convenient and safe means of transportation for the country 
• railway provides employment problem 

#importance of railway Or necessity of railway :-railway are the effective mode of transportation over large distance in our country it plays an important role in distributing the goods raw material etc.

from far off places to the factories and also the products from the factories to the people socials and economic life of the people of India .

• political change :- these are

1. railway have played important role in bring the feeling brotherhood and railway together among-st the people of different caste religion customs and tradition 
2. railway have played an effective role in improving the central administration 
3. railway have played an important role during war by transportation ammunition troops and medical facilities etc 
4. railway have helped in the mass migration of the people during independence 

• social change:- These are  

1. railways have removed the feeling isolation from the mind of the people living in village 
2. railways have played a vital role in removing the feeling of cast as people different caste travel in the same compartment 
3. railway have winded the social thinking 
4. railway have provide facilities to the masses to visit places of religion important with safety and comfort 
5. railway have increased the social status of the Indian people 

• Economic change:- these are the 

1. railways have played better role in transporting labour for  the industrial development of the country 
2. railway have played a vital role in transporting food clothes medicines  flood affected area and also during famines 
3. railway have provide better employment opportunities 
4. Railway have helped commercially farming through out the country 
5. Railway have played vital role in increasing the revenue of a country