[4] Madhavrao Scindia and Ram Naik are the only people to have served as Ministers of State for Railways with an Independent charge.

Lalit Narayan Mishra is the only cabinet minister to die in office after being assassinated in a bomb blast in 1975,[5] while Suresh Angadi is the only minister of state to die in office.

[8][2] On 22 September 1948, N. Gopalaswamy Ayyangar was appointed as the minister of the newly renamed Ministry of Railways and Transport.

[9] On 17 April 1957, Jagjivan Ram became the first to head the standalone Minister of Railways.

[14] The railway budget was estimated to be ₹264,600 crore (US$31 billion) for the financial year 2023–24.