Meet The First Loco Pilot Of India -Surekha Yadav

Surekha Yadav is a female loco pilot of the Indian Railways. She became India's first female train driver in 1988.

She drove the first "Ladies Special" local train for Central Railways when it was first introduced in the four metro cities.

On 8 March 2011, she also became Asia's first woman train driver to drive the Deccan Queen from Pune to CST.

Surekha Yadav repeated the feat ten years later driving an all-woman crew from Mumbai to Lucknow train journey.

She was selected and joined the Central Railway as a trainee assistant driver in 1986 at the Kalyan Training School.

The first local goods train that she piloted was numbered L-50, which runs between Wadi Bunder and Kalyan.

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